WHITESIDE AREA CAREER

The Whiteside Area Career Center is a cooperative endeavor of sixteen member school districts and four parochial schools located in Northwestern Illinois. WACC is located at 1608 Fifth Avenue in Sterling. The regional system encompasses approximately 1,450 square miles and has a population of 110,000 plus. Students come from five counties: Bureau, Carroll, Lee, Ogle, and Whiteside. The major concentration of population is in the tri-cities of Sterling, Rock Falls, and Dixon with the remainder residing in surrounding rural areas, small towns, and villages. WACC currently has about 700 students enrolled in its eleven programs: Auto Service, Building Trades, Early Childhood Education, Commercial Food Service, Computer Technology, Criminal Justice, Digital Media Arts, Health Occupations (CNA), Allied Health, Pre-Engineering, and Welding. Juniors and seniors are in attendance at WACC for one hour and fifty minutes daily. All students travel to WACC as their home schools (except Sterling who is across the street) buses them to the site.