Education
Gateway Technical College Provides Leading Edge Services and Educational Opportunities.
Gateway Technical College Excels at Providing Educational Services for Business.
Gateway:
- Identifies employee skill gaps and formulates company training plans.
- Provides tools to help boost company productivity and quality, which positively impacts the bottom line.
- Works with employees to provide company required skills in basic and technical education.
- Helps employers further develop their leadership skills.
Gateway Technical College Maintains a Laser Focus on Educating Students for Careers.
Over 65 career training programs are offered to students at Gateway campuses. Major campuses are located in Elkhorn, Kenosha and Racine.
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, One of the Flagship Universities of the University of Wisconsin System, is Located in Walworth County.
UW-Whitewater Business Centers offer outstanding services for businesses.
- The Global Business Resource Center helps businesses expand their markets to international settings.
- The Small Business Development Center provides a wide variety of services to start-up and growing businesses in Southeast Wisconsin.
- The Wisconsin Innovation Service Center specializes in assessments of new products and inventions, whether they come from start-up or established businesses.
- The Wisconsin Center for IT Services assists small businesses by providing IT solutions such as web site design, optimization of search engine results, web site security and user friendly design and updates.
UW-Whitewater’s College of Business and Economics is Wisconsin’s Premier Business School.
- Employers characterize the graduates of UW-Whitewater's College of Business & Economics as “technically superior with outstanding work ethic”.
- The College of Business and Economics cultivates their graduates to be successful business leaders. The goal of the college is to graduate students that are sound decision makers, good communicators, globally aware, analytical, ethical and adept with information technology.
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Other State Universities Located in the Region Include
UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, and UW-Parkside.
UW-Madison
UW-Milwaukee
UW-Parkside
Lake Geneva Public Schools Excel at Providing College and Vocational Pathways for All High School Graduates.
Lake Geneva Badger High School has an advanced, collaborative Wisconsin Careers Pathway program, which successfully prepares students for technical and vocational careers.
Over 70% of Badger High School graduates go on to attend either a 4 year or technical college.
Each year, over 500 high school students take at least one advanced placement class at Bader High School for college credit.
Private Grade and Middle Schools in Lake Geneva.
First Evangelical Lutheran School in Lake Geneva
- First Evangelical School provides education for students from Kindergarten through eighth grade.
- Established in 1977, First Evangelical Lutheran School strives to assist and support parents with the Christian education and training of their children.
St. Francis de Sales Parish School in Lake Geneva
- By combining a well-rounded, standard-based curriculum with excellent teachers and small class sizes in grades Kindergarten to 8th grade, St. Francis provides the foundation for academic excellence.
- Students learn from an early age that religion is not a class period, or something practiced on Sundays, but rather a way of developing as a person who cares for and respects others.
Mt. Zion Christian School in Lake Geneva
- The mission of Mt. Zion Christian School is to develop Christian character and academic excellence in their students.
- Mt. Zion is a Christian Kindergarten through eighth school for families in Lake Geneva and the surrounding area.