Great Plains Technology Center
Overview
Campus Locations
Lawton Campus
4500 W. Lee Blvd.
Lawton, Oklahoma 73505
(580) 355-6371
Tillman-Kiowa Campus
2001 E. Gladstone Ave.
Frederick, OK 73542-4600
580-335-5525
Projects and Unique Attributions
Great Plains statewide leadership in public safety training was exemplified, June 4, 2010, with a formal Dedication of our Regional Public Safety facility. The one-of-a-kind, joint-use-facility houses Great Plains Criminal Justice Officer career major, City of Lawton Police Training Division, Lawton and Comanche County consolidated emergency E-911 operations and the Medical Emergency Response Center (MERC).
Enrollment doubled this year in Great Plains expanded Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) career cluster. Project Lead The Way (PLTW) recognized Biomedical Science and Pre-Engineering instructors with its 2010 national INNOVA Award for creative instruction that led to positive outcomes.
Great Plains' highly successful SCORE program provides intensive student support with rigorous academics and appropriate occupational training to students who have separated from the traditional high school. Nearly 100 students were graduated in SCORE's 2010 commencement ceremony bringing SCORE's cumulative total of graduates to more than 900.
What do students really experience at Great Plains? Find out in "The Lounge", Great Plains' breakthrough, weekly blog/column that follows two students' lives throughout the school year. Visit "The Lounge" at www.greatplains.edu. Great Plains use of multiple communication channels, include a video presence on You Tube and more than 500 followers on Facebook.
District Population and Partner Schools
District population is 127,980 based on 2000 census data. School districts served include Big Pasture, Bishop, Cache, Chattanooga, Davidson, Elgin, Fletcher, Flower Mound, Frederick, Geronimo, Grandfield, Indiahoma, Lawton, Snyder, Sterling and Tipton.