Lewisville School of Science & Technology offers diverse academic pathways, including P-TECH and comprehensive STEM options. These specialized programs prepare students for success in technology and science-related fields, with hands-on learning and personalized support. Join us on this transformative educational journey to unlock exciting opportunities and shape future STEM leaders and innovators.
PTECH & STEM Pathways
Forging Pathways to a
Promising Future
What is STEM?
STEM is short for science, technology, engineering, and math. STEM teaches science, math, and engineering as a whole, using technology to relate learning to the real world. STEM education and training increase the number of college science and technology graduates entering a growing workforce. Students succeed with in-demand STEM jobs!
STEM challenges students with projects, concrete knowledge, and experience. For example, a digital drawing program may be included in a geometry lesson. STEM is hands-on, mind-on, and feeds natural student curiosity when they are most ready to learn.
Why is STEM Important?
STEM runs the world your student already lives in. The phone in their pocket depends on software developers and the cybersecurity teams who keep it safe. The clinic down the street needs medical assistants who can run an EKG or draw blood. The roads, bridges, and buildings around Lewisville were all designed by engineers.
Those are the exact fields our pathways cover. Students don’t just read about them… they practice the same skills professionals use every day.
STEM careers also solve real problems in our communities, from keeping patients healthy to protecting personal data. To succeed in any of them, students need:
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Learning Skills: critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, and communication.
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Literacy Skills: information, media, and technology literacy
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Life Skills: flexibility, initiative, social skills, productivity, and leadership.
How do education & STEM work together for STEM Careers?
The best jobs in Texas take more than a high school diploma. The Texas Workforce Commission projects the state will add more than 2.1 million jobs by 2032, and nearly half the occupations behind that growth require education or training after high school.
That doesn’t always mean a four-year degree. TWC expects more than 226,000 new high-wage, high-demand “middle-skill” jobs in Texas by 2032. These jobs need a certificate or associate degree, not a bachelor’s, and nearly three in four pay more than $55,000 a year. twc
STEM pays off at every level. Nationally, STEM jobs paid a median of $103,580 in 2024, more than double the median for non-STEM jobs. STEM employment is also projected to grow three times faster than everything else through 2034.
That’s why our P-TECH pathways pair industry certifications with college credit. Students graduate with a credential employers recognize, and a head start on a degree.
Sources: Texas Workforce Commission, Texas High Growth Report Summary 2025; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections, 2024–34.
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Our Pathways
Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools (P-TECH) are innovative open-enrollment high schools that allow students an opportunity to receive both a high school diploma and a credential and/or an associate degree. The hallmark of the P-TECH model is its career focus and the provision of work-based education.