Polaris Career Center

Polaris Career Center is a vocational school located in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. They work in conjunction with the 11th and 12th grade students from the Berea, Brooklyn, Fairview, North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls, and Strongsville school districts. Polaris Career Center offers a unique opportunity that combines career training, academics and employability skills. You can enter the job market after graduation or continue your education at a two-year or four-year college. State-of-the-art equipment and a modern facility provide students with the tools to get a head start on their future. Programs are continually upgraded and expanded to remain current with today's changing technology and job market. The Polaris Career Center Adult Education Department offers comprehensive education and training services that are key to individuals entering the job market, seeking a new career, or looking to update their qualifications. Our programs and services are continually upgraded and expanded to remain current with today’s changing technology and job market. The Polaris district newsletter, the COMPASS, is published three times yearly and contains articles about programs, services, and student accomplishments in both the high school and adult education departments. Each fall issue contains the Disrict Annual Report.

Polaris Education Foundation

What is the Foundation?

The Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization created for the specific purpose of promoting, improving and enriching the activities and programs at Polaris Career Center. The Foundation’s support helps Polaris improve the quality of education it offers to the communities it serves. Since 1989, the Foundation has been helping high school students in need pay course fees and awarding scholarships for post-secondary education.

What are its goals?

The goals of the Foundation are:

  1. To build an endowment fund to support the purposes of the Foundation.
  2. To help defray student fee costs for career technical programs at Polaris.
  3. To establish a scholarship fund.

Who will benefit?

The students and business community will benefit from the Foundation’s efforts. Through course fee assistance, Polaris students will be better prepared to enter the job market. In addition, the scholarship fund will help students who are pursuing further education beyond high school. These efforts will provide a more productive workforce for employers in our community and elsewhere.

How can you contribute?

The Foundation can receive and expend revenue from both the corporate and private sector to reach its goals. It anticipates that donations will take many forms including outright gifts of cash, memorial gifts, and/or deferred gifts. The Foundation plans to invest all contributions except nominal amounts needed for conducting fundraising activities.

Mission and Beliefs

Mission

Polaris, a premier educational center, promotes lifelong learning and prepares high school and adult students for meaningful employment and further education through authentic learning experiences.

Beliefs

We believe learning is a continuous process. We believe we each create our own future by making responsible choices. We believe all people possess unique strengths and have the potential to learn and grow. We believe mutual respect forms the foundation of relationships and contributes to the growth of individuals and organizations.

Ohio Award for Excellence

Polaris has been named as a recipient of the Ohio Award for Excellence (OAE). The award recognizes organizations who exhibit a strong commitment to continuous improvement. The award process promotes the awareness of performance excellence as an increasing element in competitiveness and also encourages information sharing of successful performance strategies and benefits derived from using these strategies. The OAE assessment process helps an organization measure performance on a wide range of key indicators. The assessment is achieved through both a written application and on-site visitation by the OAE Board of Examiners. A detailed feedback report is provided to applicants. Recognizing that active partnership between the private, public and education sectors, and their involvement in continuous performance improvement and excellence are fundamental to making Ohio renowned for the quality of goods, services, education, and overall quality of life, the OAE strives to provide both recognition and identification of key strengths and opportunities for improvement to award recipients.

External Link

• Polaris Career Center