Northland Workforce Development Center
The Workforce Center will be located north of Costco and will be a state-of-art facility for high school students and adult learners for skilled trades. The new center will replace the district’s Northland Career Center, which attracts nearly 500 students from 16 high schools across Clay and Platte counties. It offers training in skilled trades including construction, heating and cooling, robotics, welding, health sciences and culinary arts. The current center was built in 1979 and has outgrown its Platte City campus. Hundreds of qualified students have been turned away over the past three years and the center now has more students on its programs’ waiting lists than students currently enrolled.
The new state-of-the art facility will be centrally located to both Clay and Platte counties near Missouri 152. It will be more than double the size of the current campus and equipped to more closely simulate the work environments students will face when they graduate.