OKAW Area Vocational Center was established in 1962 and is located in Vandalia in Fayette County Illinois and is housed on the Vandalia High School Campus.
OKAW Area Vocational Center offers an education for the high schools in the area to provide the necessary resources for high school junior and senior students to learn a vocational trade and enrolls about 250 students. The participating schools utilizing the resources provided by OKAW Area Vocational Center are: Altamont, Brownstown, Greenville, Hillsboro, Mulberry Grove, New Approach, Pana, Patoka, Ramsey, Sandoval, South Central, St. Elmo, and Vandalia. These students attend a half-day session at their home school for core classes and are then bussed to OKAW area Vocational Center for two-and-a-half hour sessions, running from 9:00 - 11:24 a.m. and 12:06 - 2:42 p.m. Some schools choose to send OKAW students for only one session, while other participating schools choose the option of both morning and afternoon sessions.