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Mat-Su Career and Technical High School is a public secondary school in Wasilla, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District. The school is focused on preparing students for postsecondary education and the workforce using branches of study called career pathways.

History
Mat-Su Career Tech is the second-newest high school in the valley after Redington Jr-Sr High School. The plan for the school was approved in 2003, and the original section opened to students for the 2007-2008 school year, starting with five career pathways. In 2015, work was completed on a 33,000 square foot extension, allowing for the addition of three more pathways.

Admissions
Students in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough seeking to attend Career Tech must complete an admission process which consists of an online application, a one-page prompt essay, and an interview with the school's principal or vice principal. Students are scored on their essay and interview quality as well as their grades and MAP scores.

Academics
Mat-Su Career Tech's career pathways include Building, Business, Fitness, Health, Hospitality and Tourism, Human Services, Natural Resources, and Transportation. Students choose a pathway related to their profession of interest as if they were to choose a college major, except that these can be changed at relatively little cost. There are no "traditional" electives such as art or band; the electives are centered around career pathways such as Industrial Safety and First Aid in Health, Technical and Architectural Drafting in Building, and Diesel Hydraulics in Transportation.

Career Tech also has no athletics. Students can participate in sports and some electives at other schools.

To graduate, students require 4 credits of Language Arts, 3.5 credits of Social Studies, 3 credits of Math, 3 credits of Science, 1 credit of Gym, 0.5 credits of Health, and 9.5 credits of electives.

CTSO
Career Tech contains a variety of Career and Technical Student Organizations, groups typically found in vocational schools that aim to generate and develop important skills for the workplace in both the individual and community. Career Tech's current CTSO's include BPA, HOSA, NTHS, and SkillsUSA.

Academic Competitions
Career Tech participates in the Battle of the Books, Science Olympiad and Ocean Bowl.

Student Government
Career Tech's Student Government coordinates school dances and other school-related events, as well as participates in community service. It also sends a delegation twice a year to the Alaska Association of Student Governments (AASG) conference, a statewide meeting between student governments to discuss school, district, and state-related issues and opportunities.

Enrollment
Mat-Su Career Tech has a higher percentage of freshmen than other grades, as enrollment for the 2019-2020 has increased to 730. Career Tech is the least diverse high school in the Mat-Su Valley, with a 74.9 Non-Hispanic White population compared to 66.2-71.1% for other Valley schools, and the largest minority enrollment is Alaska Native.

52.1 percent of the student body is female, and 25.4 percent of the student body qualifies for free or reduced lunch. The graduation rate is more than 95%, the highest in the state.

Recognition
Mat-Su Career Tech has been rated by Niche as the best school in Alaska.

COVID-19
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Mat-Su Career Tech shifted to online learning in March 2020 after an extended spring break. Career Tech reopened the following school year under the 2020 Alaska Smart Start, a set of COVID-19 processes issued by the Alaska Department of Education. On October 14, 2020, a student at Career Tech contracted COVID-19, but school continued the following day. However, the school reported several more cases on October 16, 2020, leading to a 2-week building closure. The cases contributed to the highest weekly rate of COVID-19 the Mat-Su Valley had ever seen.