Orleans/Niagara BOCES

Our Adult Education Second Chance program, at the Niagara County Jail, recently completed a cool project. Teacher Paul Dewey worked with inmates to improve their essential job rea...

Zach Luick was a Lockport student in the Electricity/Electronics program at the Orleans Career and Technical Education Center (OCTEC) from 2022-2023. “The programs at BOCES are ...

Congratulations to the students from the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center, who were recently inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. Out of all the high ...

Congratulations to Conservation student Adam Yanicki from Royalton-Hartland! Adam earned first place in the entire nation in the Environmental and Natural Resources at the 98th N...

Our Culinary Arts students, in Chef Lisa Cook’s and Chef Caitlin Kucharski’s classes, had a great field trip at Smith’s Orchard Cider Mill in Lockport. The Niagara Career a...

Congratulations to the students from the Orleans Career and Technical Education Center, who were recently inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. Out of all the hig...

Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) teacher Bill Rakonczay, teacher aide Brianna Peterson and the senior class students, at the Orleans Career and Technical Education C...

Leesburg, Va. - October 17, 2025 - James Rozewski of Orleans Career & Technical Educational Center earned the SkillsUSA National Statesman Award during the organization's Washin...

Congratulations to our Safety Risk Department who recently received the 2025 School Safety Excellence Award from the Utica National Insurance Group. We are one of 156 school distr...

Administrators of the Orleans/Niagara BOCES, Newfane Superintendent Jay Lupini, Orleans/Niagara BOCES’ Board of Education members, staff and students celebrated the re-opening ...

The Orleans/Niagara BOCES received information regarding a potential threat to Niagara Academy and Niagara Career and Technical Center. In accordance with established safety pro...

Todd Eick, the Animal Science teacher at the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center, recently spent a month over the summer in Uganda with fellow educators to support edu...

Computer Technology teacher Paul Herrmann recently invited past graduates, Dylan Ruffini and Nate Wolf, to talk to his current students about their career path with KJ Motorspor...

Congratulations to Scott Brauer, who was named a winner of the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence this morning. Brauer, a manufacturing teacher at Ni...

Orleans/Niagara BOCES is adding a new Fire Science element to the EMS (Emergency Medical Services) program at the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center this school year....

Seventeen proud GED graduates were honored September 25 th at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Medina. Congratulations to: Allissa Adams, Madison Banker, Heaven Williams, Kaden...

The students in the Orleans/Niagara BOCES Practical Nursing program had a little fun while they were learning their skills and testing their knowledge recently at the Continuing...

The Orleans/Niagara BOCES recently named its Employees of the Year for the 2024-2025 school year. Employees are nominated by their peers and a committee selects an awardee in each...

In 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled her reading initiative, "Back to Basics", that requires an annual review of school district curriculum and instructional practices in the...

A recent graduate of the Adult Electricity program at Orleans-Niagara BOCES has been given a unique opportunity to work on a massive project for Amazon. Russell Peterson, a recen...