Columbus Downtown High School & Career Center

In January 2009, the downtown skyline was accented with something new: beautifully lit windows belonging to the Columbus Downtown High School & Career Center.

Designed to house up to 800 students, the Columbus Downtown High School, which features a public restaurant staffed by students, a three-story library and a cosmetology/hair salon unites students from three other career centers across the City into one central location. This location allows students convenient access to colleges and universities as well as internships and job placement with major central Ohio corporations.

Columbus Public Schools is consolidating its business and technology vocational programs under this single state-of-the-art center to give students more and better opportunities to develop necessary skills while gaining real-world experience in the downtown business arena. The Columbus Downtown High School offers areas of specialization in the following career clusters: business, engineering, information technology, and personal services. The building also houses the district's culinary arts program, which will offer a full food service facility including a student-operated restaurant.

And because Columbus City Schools has control over the entire block located at the corner of Mound and Fourth Streets, they guarantee the site will feature more green space and more parking, making the site a point of pride for both downtown and the District.

For more information, click here to visit the Columbus City Schools Web site.