Canton City Schools Adult Career and Technical Education
Canton, Ohio · Public institution
- Address 521 Tuscarawas West, Canton, OH 44702
- Phone (330) 438-2556
- Website https://www.ccsdistrict.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=189
- Tuition (in-state) Not available
- Tuition (out-of-state) Not available
- Program total cost $15,447
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 4 (latest reported year)
- AWS ATF co-located No (No AWS ATF facility found in this city+state in the AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing PDF (6.25.2025, 200 domestic facilities) -- not a gap, a computed negative match.)
What this program covers
Canton City Schools Adult Career & Technical Education's Welding program fact sheet (2026-2027) describes an introductory-to-advanced welding course covering basic welding/thermal cutting and metallurgy, safe oxy/fuel cutting, and various positions of welding. The program totals 800 instructional hours across a base course (400 hours: Fundamentals of Safety, SMAW, Weld Symbols and Joint Design, GMAW, Weld Inspection, FCAW, GTAW, and a 90-hour externship) plus 3G D1.1 SMAW Test Preparation (200 hours) and 3G D1.1 GMAW Test Preparation (200 hours). Testing conforms to American Welding Society Structural Code D1.1 (3G Unlimited Upward Progression). The program runs September 8, 2026 through June 15, 2027 as an evening program, Monday-Friday 5:30pm-10:00pm, at the Technology Building (521 Tuscarawas Street W., Canton, Ohio). Cost is $11,000 including tuition, program supplies, and books; financial assistance through grants, scholarships, and loans is available for those who qualify. Admission requires being 18+ with a high school diploma or GED, an application, transcript/GED documentation, a qualifying academic-readiness measure (e.g. GPA, GED score, TABE test), an interview, and completed financial aid paperwork.
- Processes taught SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, GTAW; oxy/fuel cutting
- Program length 800 total instructional hours (400-hour base course + 200-hour 3G D1.1 SMAW test prep + 200-hour 3G D1.1 GMAW test prep); nine months (September 8, 2026 - June 15, 2027)
- Schedule Evening program, Monday-Friday, 5:30pm-10:00pm
- Certifications prepped AWS D1.1 Structural Welding Code testing (3G Unlimited Upward Progression, SMAW and GMAW)
- Facilities Technology Building, 521 Tuscarawas Street W., Canton, Ohio
- Financial aid Cost $11,000 (tuition, program supplies, books); financial assistance through grants, scholarships, and loans available for those who qualify
Sources & provenance
- Identity IPEDS Directory (HD component) via Urban Institute Education Data API (2023) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Completions IPEDS Completions (C2023_A, NCES bulk file) (2023 (2022-23 academic year)) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Tuition College Scorecard institution-level bulk CSV (Most Recent Cohorts) (most-recent-cohort (exact AY not labeled in bulk file; file release timestamp 2026-06-10)) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Atf AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing PDF (aws-p-001-delivery.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/AWS-ATF-Domestic-Site-Listing), dated 6.25.2025, GET-fetched and parsed with pdftotext; 200 facility records extracted (city+state); co-location = program's city+state matches an ATF facility's city+state (2025 (6.25.2025 listing)) , retrieved 2026-08-04