About Pioneer
Seventy-five percent of future jobs will be considered a skilled trade. Is our workforce ready to compete in this changing economy?
Since 1968, Pioneer Career & Technology Center has partnered with local communities to deliver innovation and excellence in education by providing real skills and real knowledge for real world success.
Now, 50 years later, we continue to help students jump-start their futures with career technical programs and academic courses that offer rigorous and relevant training to better prepare them for today’s high-tech workplace and further education.
Pioneer serves high school juniors and seniors by offering over 35 career-training programs. Our students focus on academic classes for half of the school day and experience hands-on learning the other half of the day in their career-technical lab and on the job. Pioneer students graduate from their associate high school upon completion of all required coursework and passage of the Ohio Graduation Tests.
Our Mission
Partnering with our communities to deliver innovation and excellence in education by providing real skills and real knowledge for real world success.
Our Vision
For Every Graduate, a Salable Skill
Facilities
Pioneer Career and Technology Center
Pioneer Career and Technology Center is located at 27 Ryan Road, Shelby, Ohio, in the Central Ohio Industrial Park. Classrooms and labs provide a comfortable, safe, spacious environment conducive to hands-on learning. Labs are furnished with up-to-date equipment designed to provide the best training for today’s skilled workforce.

Pioneer programs are housed at the following locations
Pioneer Campus
Partner Schools
Enrollment at Pioneer is open to students from our 14 partner schools:
- Buckeye Central
- Bucyrus
- Colonel Crawford
- Crestline
- Crestview
- Galion
- Lexington
- Lucas
- Northmor
- Ontario
- Plymouth/Shiloh
- Shelby
- Willard
- Wynford
North Central State College
Kehoe Learning Center
Pioneer Performing Arts Academy
at the Renaissance Theatre's
Theatre 166 in Mansfield
