Franklin Tech offers a wide variety of career programs for high school students and adults, adult basic education and GED preparation classes, and a comprehensive offering of Community Education classes. Vocational training has been available through Franklin Technology Center for over seventy years. FTC is a Southwest Missouri area vocational school managed by the Joplin R-VIII School District and accredited by the North Central Association on Accreditation and School Improvement and the Commision on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation, an alliance of the premier American educational accrediting agencies.