Our mission is:

1. To provide a safe, active, teaching/learning environment in our vocational technical program, in which students strive for excellence with the high level of skills necessary for success in a culturally diverse society .

2. To provide a vocational educational experience for each student that will prepare him or her to be a self-confident lifelong learner, able to set and achieve goals, and to become a contributing member of a humane and democratic society.

3. To develop responsible individuals who are aware citizens, lead healthy lives, make successful personal choices, demonstrate ethical behavior, function effectively as members of a team, and appreciate the value of diversity in the vocational department and the school population.

4. To develop competent learners who pursue knowledge, demonstrate a variety of disciplines and skills, communicate effectively, can employ various forms of technology, and hold high expectations for their own future.

5. To develop complex thinkers who solve problems critically and analytically, create original ideas and solutions, are willing to accept constructive critism, and are willing to take responsible intellectual risks.

Our goal is for the students in the Culinary Arts Program to participate successfully in a standards-based, diversified educational program in which student and instructor benefit from criteria and performance-based assessment, successfully integrated with instruction, and to be prepared to successfully gain employment in a variety of occupational opportunities in the food service industry, or to pursue further studies at a culinary college.