The upcoming fall semester will be the start of the third school year in the Kirkwood Washington Regional Center on Lexington Boulevard. Director Tera Pickens gave a report to the Washington Community School Board recently about the programs and attendance levels. She explained high school students can study architecture, construction, criminal justice, transportation, manufacturing, arts and sciences. She adds while the classes help prepare many for college they also help students entering the workforce.

Washington School District has seen attendance increase from 126 students in the fall of 2014 to an anticipated 167 students this fall. Most of those students are juniors and seniors, but Washington does have a few sophomore and freshmen students.

Pickens says one student is on track to graduate with her associates degree in the spring, if so she’ll receive a college degree before her high school diploma because high school graduation is held after Kirkwood’s classes end in the spring.