Empowering Students. Strengthening Communities.
Community development begins with economic opportunity. Your support helps GPS Ed dismantle barriers to financial mobility, supporting workforce development through high-quality work-based learning.
Breaking Barriers to Good Jobs
Grants and donations directly fund critical support systems — ensuring that rural, urban, and suburban students in need have access to high-paying technical careers.
Retaining Local Talent
By connecting young adults to regional employer pipelines through high-quality work-based learning, we help keep our future workforce in their local communities.
Driving Financial Mobility
Giving youth the tools to earn family-sustaining wages immediately after high school reduces community dependency and fosters long-term regional growth.
Ed Center Impact Partners
GPS Ed’s statewide impact is made possible through the generosity of private donors, corporate foundations, and community grants. We’re grateful for their ongoing support.
GPS Ed Program Outcomes
GPS Ed was launched in 2000, educating just five students from a single school and partnering with one business. Today there are over 1,534 graduates from more than 50 school districts that have filled the talent needs of almost 100 businesses across Wisconsin.
Graduates Statewide
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Graduation Rate
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Earned YA Certificate of Occupational Proficiency
%
Passed National Career Readiness (NCRC) Assessment
%
MSSC Certified Production Tech. Pass Rate
%
Pursuing Technical Career at Graduation
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Full-Time Employment Rate at Graduation
Program data represents a three-year average (2023–2025).
For more than 25 years, GPS Education Partners has been bridging education to industry through high-quality work-based learning in Wisconsin. Learn more about the organization’s history and broader work here.