This podcast contains comments during the November 16, 2021 College Station ISD school board meeting from the district's career and technical education director, Kevin Ross.

Copy and paste the following link to read and download presentation materials from the November 16, 2021 CSISD school board meeting: https://wtaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CSISD111621cvhs.pdf

College Station ISD administrators tell school board members their goal to increase enrollment at the district's alternative high school from 82 this year to more than 200 in three years.

According to an update presented during Tuesday's board meeting regarding College View High School, administrators want 45 percent of the student body in one of four career academies.

CSISD's career and technical education (CTE) director Kevin Ross says one of three new options is in hotel and resort management.

The other new programs are digital arts and media influencing and facilities engineering technology.

College View will continue to offer a fire science academy.

Board members were told recruitment efforts are already underway. There are 333 current eighth graders who are not enrolled in athletics and/or fine arts. 469 students taking principles of law classes are targeted for the fire science academy. 181 students taking principles of arts and/or audio-visual and/or photography classes are targeted for the digital arts and media influencer academy. 231 students taking introduction to culinary classes are targeted for the hotel and resort management academy. And 188 students taking introduction to construction and/or ag mechanics classes are targeted for the facilities engineering technology academy.

As for the rest of College View's future enrollment, board members were told 45 percent of the student population will be in a dual credit program with Blinn College, and ten percent will be enrolled in programs to speed up getting their high school diploma.