This chart is designed to help students and parents understand the educational and physical expectations and/or recommendations for the Masonry program at Lehigh Career & Technical Institute. For additional information, please visit the program webpage.

Program Safety & Physical Considerations

• High degree of self-discipline and focus needed for safety around moving equipment, hand tools, power tools, and other equipment found in the industry
• Physical strength and stamina with the ability to lift 50 pounds overhead
• Ability to work in all weather conditions and have no fear of heights or working in closed spaces
• Learning and working environment with dust, dirt, and debris found in masonry industry, loud and sometimes startling noises, on-going background noise, moving people and construction equipment, small spaces, interior or exterior work factors (all weather conditions), high spaces using scaffolding and ladders

Essential Aptitudes Recommended

• Eye/hand/foot coordination
• Manual and finger dexterity
• Multi-limb coordination while standing, sitting, or lying down
• Arm-hand steadiness
• General body coordination and stamina that requires considerable use of arms, legs, and whole body
• Ability to visualize
• Spatial acuity
• Form perception

Reading & Language Arts Levels

• College Prep Reading and Language Arts
• Text written on a 10th -11th grade reading level
• Technical reading and writing skills

Math Level

• Basic Math skills
• College Prep Geometry
• Ability to calculate  materials using floor plans, elevations, and sectional plans
• Ability to apply construction geometry, calculate board and square feet, linear measures, square measures, and cubic measures, convert fractions, decimals, and percentages, simplify measurements

End of Year – 12th Grade Assessment Test

• NOCTI

Industry Certifications

• Students will have the opportunity to earn industry certifications in the program

Program Requirements & Related Costs

• Shirt: $7
• Pants: $10-25
• Steel-tip work boots: $25-80

 Cooperative Education

• Students who meet all the requirements, including teacher recommendation, grades, attendance, and discipline record
• Students must provide their own transportation to and from the job site

Articulation Agreements

• Statewide Articulation Agreements

Other Skills

• Ability to work independently and with a team
• Critical thinking skills
• Inductive reasoning
• Problem solving and trouble-shooting skills
• Customer service skills