Adirondack Educational CenterThe Adirondack Educational Center offers eight vocational training programs, an alternative education program, an adult education program, and several administrative offices serving the school districts of Lake Placid, Long Lake, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake. Saranac Lake joined the Franklin County Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) in 1968. In 2023, they served two hundred high school age students. Working in conjunction with the school districts, students work towards completion of high school and then proceed to post-secondary education, the workforce or the military.
Their building at 711 New York Route 3 opened in 1975 on the site of the former St. Armand Racetrack.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 5, 1983Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 30, 1975
BOCES OFFERING ADULT COURSES
SARANAC LAKE - The Adirondack Educational Center (BOCES) will accept registration by phone for adult education courses. Those interested may call from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 6 and from 8:30 a.m. to a p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The number is 891-1330.
Courses offered this year are: auto mechanics, trade carpentry, blue print reading, and small engine repair.
The fee for each course is $25.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 26, 1977
BOCES center begins third year in facility
SARANAC LAKE - The Adirondack Educational Center has begun a third year of operation in Its new facility located on Route 3 (Bloomingdale Road).
The Board of Cooperative Extension Services (BOCES) occupational program has continued to grow since its beginning in September, 1972, in a rental facility in Ray Brook.
The center now offers occupational training programs in automotive mechanics, building trades, conservation, cosmetology, culinary art, health assisting, advanced office practice and advanced secretarial practice.
The center also houses a shop-classroom complex for its' multi-occupations program.
The 1977-78 school year has 'seen the addition of new staff at the Occupational Center.
Mrs. Kathleen Phebus, who joined the staff midway through the 1976-77 school year, will continue as cosmetology instructor, and John Crary has assumed the duties of automotive mechanics instructor. Crary is from the Clinton-Essex BOCES where he was an automotive mechanics instructor at the Yandon-Dillon Area Occupational Center in Minevllle.
Jay Field, instructor of the Building Trades program with BOCES at the Adirondack Educational Center in Saranac Lake, builds a gazebo in Beaver Park on Dorsey Street in Saranac Lake with first-year students from Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake high schools on Thursday. The gazebo is expected to be completed by Thanksgiving.
Additionally, Building Trade students will be working on a habitat for humanity house in Tupper Lake.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 27, 2002
The center will once again offer evening adult education programs. A list of these offerings, and registration information, will be publicized in the near future.
