The technical secondary schools and technical schools in Zaozhuang include: Shanting District Vocational Technical School, Zaozhuang Polytechnic School, Shandong Coal Health School, Zaozhuang Special Education School, and Yicheng District Vocational Technical School.
1. Shanting District Vocational Technical Secondary School
Shanting District Vocational Technical Secondary School is a multi-disciplinary, multi-study and multi-level comprehensive school that focuses on cultivating secondary vocational and technical talents. The secondary vocational school is a state-run vocational school and the training base of Shanting District’s “Sunshine Project”.
The school has established a school-running philosophy of "market-oriented, skill training as the core, and employment as the goal" and follows the school-running purpose of "let the unskilled have skills and the unemployed have jobs."
2. Zaozhuang Polytechnic School
Zaozhuang Polytechnic School was built in 1979 and is located in the new town of Zaozhuang City, at the south end of Changbaishan Road. The school implements the three major strategies of "developing schools with characteristics, strengthening schools with quality, and running schools in a socialized manner". It is a national key vocational secondary school, a national reform and development demonstration school, and a national numerical control technology application training demonstration school.
The school currently has more than 150 teachers, including 36 full-time and associate professors, 72 dual-qualified teachers, 10 famous teaching teachers, 3 young skilled teachers, and 3 Qilu famous teachers. The school has specially established a Vocational Education College Entrance Examination Department, which specializes in electromechanical technology application, computer application, art design and production, and National Defense Force examination classes.
3. Shandong Coal Health School
Shandong Coal Health School was founded in 1958 and was originally one of the four key health schools under the Ministry of Coal. In 1986, it was renamed Zaozhuang Coal Hygiene School. The school covers an area of ??77,436.89 square meters and has a construction area of ??34,533 square meters. The library has a collection of more than 100,000 books and a total fixed asset value of 17.096 million yuan.
The school currently has 90 faculty members and 66 full-time teachers, including 1 with a doctorate, 2 with master's degrees, 39 with senior professional titles, and 18 with intermediate professional titles. The school offers four majors: general technical secondary school classes and "three and two consecutive" college programs in nursing, midwifery, medical laboratory technology, and pharmacy.
4. Zaozhuang Special Education School
Zaozhuang Special Education School was founded in 1982. The school covers an area of ??43 acres and has a construction area of ??12,800 square meters. It now has hearing-impaired and visually impaired schools. It is a modern, standardized and garden-style school with three teaching departments for the handicapped and mentally retarded.
The school fully implements the national education policy. In order to ensure that students with disabilities can better receive education, the school implements "four exemptions" education, that is, exemption from tuition and miscellaneous fees, accommodation fees, textbook fees, and living expenses.
5. Yicheng District Vocational Technical Secondary School
Yicheng District Vocational Technical Secondary School was founded in 1994. It is based on the integration of the teaching resources of the original teacher training school, Zaozhuang No. 10 Middle School, and No. 21 Middle School. A newly built national key vocational secondary vocational school in Yicheng District, it is the Yicheng District Sunshine Engineering Training Base, Rural Labor Transfer Training Base, and Vocational Skills Appraisal Base.
The school covers an area of ??130,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??84,000 square meters. It has office buildings, teaching buildings, science and technology buildings, training buildings, student apartments, plastic playgrounds, computers, multimedia classrooms, and ordinary lathes. Machining center, CNC machine tool machining center, PLC laboratory, maintenance electrician laboratory, electronic electrician training room and other equipment and facilities.