Lively Technical College
About
Lively Technical College is a public technical training school for both adult and high school students, located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It occupies two sites, including the main campus at 500 Appleyard Drive, and the campuses at Tallahassee International Airport. The main campus on Appleyard is located adjacent to Tallahassee State College, but the two are separate institutions. Lively Tech is operated by the Leon County Schools district.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 18 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 18 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data18 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Council on Occupational Education
Action history · 8
- Dec 2023Grant Substantive Change: Final Branch ApprovalCouncil on Occupational Education
- Jun 2023Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Mar 2022Renewal of AccreditationCouncil on Occupational Education
- Mar 2021Approved for Distance EducationCouncil on Occupational Education
- Dec 2020Approved for Distance EducationCouncil on Occupational Education
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 561 students received $2.7M in Pell grants.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 1 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Lively Technical College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Lively Technical College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Lively Technical College selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectLively Technical College | 51% | — | 1,349 | $7,225 | — |
Autry Technology Center | — | 70.9% | 632 | — | — |
Butler Technology and Career Development Schools | — | 82.1% | 596 | — | — |
Central Technology Center | — | — | 1,159 | — | — |
Davis Technical College | — | — | 4,188 | $10,885 | — |
Dixie Technical College | — | 66.5% | 1,347 | — | — |
George T Baker Aviation Technical College | — | — | 1,040 | $6,984 | — |
Gordon Cooper Technology Center | — | — | 860 | $4,513 | — |
H W Brewster Technical College | — | — | 695 | $10,053 | — |
Kiamichi Technology Center-McAlester | — | — | 540 | $6,927 | — |
Lindsey Hopkins Technical College | — | — | 393 | $6,900 | — |
Meridian Technology Center | — | — | 1,009 | $4,481 | — |
Metro Technology Centers | — | — | 1,626 | $7,184 | — |
Moore Norman Technology Center | — | 83.5% | 1,403 | — | — |
Ogden-Weber Technical College | — | — | 4,207 | $1,614 | — |
Orange Technical College-South Campus | — | — | 3,608 | — | — |
Polytech Adult Education | — | 92.1% | 590 | — | — |
Southwest Technical College | — | — | 864 | — | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Hartsville | — | — | 1,014 | $4,963 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Knoxville | — | — | 1,581 | $7,858 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-McMinnville | — | — | 812 | $5,048 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Memphis | — | — | 1,960 | $7,429 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Murfreesboro | — | — | 928 | $6,969 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville | — | — | 623 | $5,443 | — |
Tooele Technical College | — | — | 666 | — | — |
Tulsa Technology Center | — | — | 4,148 | $8,411 | — |
Uintah Basin Technical College | — | — | 2,002 | — | — |
| Peer group median | 51% | 82.1% | 1,014 | $6,969 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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