Schools & AWArDS
committed to SUPPORTING SCHOOLS AND
PROMOTING excellence in collision education
Seeking funding?
Our Benchmark School Awards empower collision repair schools with access to the latest tools, equipment, and supplies, enriching the learning environment.
Start your grant journey by completing our yearly survey, which enables us to identify areas where our support can be most effective. We offer cash grants, and in-kind donations of advanced tools, equipment, and resources.
Benchmark School Awards Application
Benchmark School Awards are NOW Closedand will open Jan 25, 2027.
Benchmark School Awards Are Now Closed and Will Re-Open In:
Please note: The school survey and benchmark application now reside in the same system. the first step in the application process is to complete the school survey, which also qualifies you to receive software and product donations.
LEARN HOW: CLICK HERE
The goal of the Benchmark School Awards is to honor schools that have been doing an outstanding job in educating students in collision repair, but need some financial assistance to improve their program’s teaching materials and equipment.
With strained school budgets, we are honored to have the opportunity to bridge the program’s financial gap and to make a difference in the lives of the students studying collision repair.
The winners are selected by a Volunteer Selection Committee composed of industry members and announced at SEMA.
Applicant must meet one of the following requirements
1.) Must be a collision repair program
2.) Must fill out the Annual School Solutions Survey
There are 3 different award categories that we provide through our Benchmark Awards.
1.) Attraction/Recruitment: Highlight efforts your school is making to attract and recruit students and new talent into your program and therefore into the collision repair industry. How will this grant assist you in attracting more students to your program?
2.) Program Enhancements: Explain the equipment and/or training that you and your school needs to best meet the needs of students preparing to become collision repair professionals. How will this grant help you build, maintain, or improve a successful program?
3.) Wildcard: Fueling Innovation Grant: Highlight the exciting, new, innovative ways you and/or your program are training our generation. Or- what great idea do you have that with this grant you can create innovation at your school, or in your program?
Collision School Career Readiness Benchmark – Tiers Explained
Top Award Winners
Waite High School (Toledo, OH)
Program Maintenance
William M. Davies Career and Technical High School (Lincoln, RI)
Wildcard: Fueling Innovation
Texas State Technical College (Waco, TX)
Program Maintenance
Wildcard: Fueling Innovation
College of Lake County (Grayslake, IL)
Germantown High School (Germantown, WI)
Norwalk High School (Norwalk, CA)
Washtenaw Community College (Ann Arbor, MI)
West-MEC (Phoenix, AZ)
Attraction, Recruitment and Employment
Andrada High School (Tucson, AZ)
Delgado Community College (New Orleans, LA)
Jefferson County Vocational School (Bloomingdale, OH)
Kern High School District Regional Occupational Center (Bakersfield, CA)
Leominster Center for Technical Education (Leominster, MA)
Lorenzo Walker Technical College (Naples, FL)
Minnesota State College Southeast (Winona, MN)
New York Automotive and Diesel Institute (Jamaica, NY)
Northern Virginia Community College (Alexandria, VA)
Southwest Wisconsin Technical College (Fennimore, WI)
State University of New York Erie (Orchard Park, NY)
Tennessee College of Applied Technology (Chattanooga, TN)
Thomas A Edison Career and Technical Academy (Elizabeth, NJ)
Thornton Fractional Center (Calumet City, IL)
Program Maintenance & Additions
Aims Community College (Windsor, CO)
Assabet Valley Technical High School (Marlborough, MA)
Athens Technical College (Athens, GA)
Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School (Charlton, MA)
Beaver County Career and Technology Center (Monaca, PA)
Bergen County Technical High School (Paramus, NJ)
Berks Career & Technology Center, East Campus (Oley, PA)
Bismarck State College (Bismarck, ND)
Bridgerland Technical College (Logan, UT)
Career Academy and Technical School (Troutman, NC)
Career Center of Southern Illinois (Red Bud, IL)
Carroll County Career and Technology Center (Westminster, MD)
Cayuga Onondaga BOCES (Auburn, NY)
Chantilly Academy (Chantilly, VA)
Cleveland Community College (Shelby, NC)
Coastal Carolina Community College (Jacksonville, NC)
Consolidated High School District 230 (Palos Hills, IL)
Contra Costa College (San Pablo, CA)
Dauphin County Technical School (Harrisburg, PA)
Des Moines Area Community College (Ankeny, IA)
Dos Palos High School (Dos Palos, CA)
Dowell J Howard Center (Winchester, VA)
Eastern Center for Arts and Technology (Willow Grove, PA)
Eden Area Regional Occupational Program (Hayward, CA)
EHOVE Career Center (Milan, OH)
Erie 2 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES LoGuidice Educational Center (Fredonia, NY)
Fox Valley Technical College (Appleton, WI)
Greenville Technical College (Greenville, SC)
Hawkeye Community College (Waterloo, IA)
Holmes County Career & Technical Center (Lexington, MS)
JB Hensler College & Career Academy (Manvel, TX)
Kootenai Technical Education Campus (Rathdrum, ID)
Lanier Technical College (Gainesville, GA)
Lebanon County Career and Technology Center (Lebanon, PA)
Lex La-Ray Technical Center (Lexington, MO)
Maxwell High School of Technology (Lawrenceville, GA)
Miami Northwestern Sr. High School (Miami, FL)
Miami Valley Career Technology Center (Clayton, OH)
Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School (Fitchburg, MA)
New Market Skills Center (Tumwater, WA)
NEWTech Prep Skill Center (Spokane, WA)
Nichols Career Center (Jefferson City, MO)
North Dakota State College of Science (Wahpeton, ND)
North Georgia Technical College (Clarkesville, GA)
North Idaho College (Coeur d’Alene, ID)
Northern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center (New Kensington, PA)
Northwest High School (Clarksville, TN)
Oakland Schools Technical Campus Southeast (Royal Oak, MI)
Ogden High School (Ogden, UT)
Ohio Technical College (Cleveland, OH)
Oxford Hills Technical School (South Paris, ME)
Pennsylvania College of Technology (Williamsport, PA)
RD Anderson Applied Technology Center (Moore, SC)
Rock Valley College (Rockford, IL)
Rosedale Technical College (Pittsburgh, PA)
Santana High School (Santee, CA)
Seward County Community College (Liberal, KS)
Sheridan Technical College (Hollywood, FL)
South Plains College (Levelland, TX)
Spokane Colleges (Spokane, WA)
Stanly Community College (Albemarle, NC)
SUN Area Technical Institute (New Berlin, PA)
Table Rock Career Center (Reeds Spring, MO)
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Elizabethton (Kingsport, TN)
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Jackson (Jackson, TN)
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Livingston (Livingston, TN)
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Morristown (Morristown, TN)
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Murfreesboro (Smyrna, TN)
Texas Southmost College (Brownsville, TX)
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology (Lancaster, PA)
Tidewater Community College (Chesapeake, VA)
Tri Valley Regional Occupational Program (Livermore, CA)
Union County High School (Blairsville, GA)
W.D. Ormsby Educational Center (East Aurora, NY)
Wake Technical Community College (Raleigh, NC)
Walker Career Center (Indianapolis, IN)
Warren Tech (Lakewood, CO)
Washington County Career and Technical Center (Abingdon, VA)
Wenatchee Valley Tech (Wenatchee, WA)
Ypsilanti Community Schools Regional Career Technical Center (Ypsilanti, MI)
SCHOOL SNAPSHOT
COLLISION REPAIR school Locator
Locate and confirm that your school is listed on our school locator.
How to apply?
Our Benchmark School Awards enable collision schools to obtain the most up-to-date tools, equipment, and supplies to enhance the educational experience.
Start by filling out our annual survey, which will help us identify ways we can support you.
We’re here to help schools remain at the cutting edge of the collision industry by providing both cash grants and in-kind product donations, which include the Benchmark School Awards repair information software, and numerous product donation opportunities available throughout the year.
