The Apprenticeship School - Newport News Shipbuilding

This place is a joke! Will recruit your sons endanger their lives, use them up and send them home all in time for the next year's recruitments to come in! Keep in mind some apprentices and workers don't get to come home or come home injured due to the life-threatening dangers many of these Foreman put apprentices and workers in within the shipyard! This place does not care about their workers or their students! They constantly cut corners and ignore safety procedures putting workers and apprentices at risk daily! Really do your research and homework before you sign up!

If I could give this "school" a negative 5 stars I would. It's a joke of a school full of people who don't teach their students anything about the trades they claim to train you in except for welding. The craft instructors are extremely rude and have a lot of problems with how to appropriately communicate with students. My craft instructor Ben Smail threw my wrench and then expected me to pick it up. Instead of being held accountable for it the echelons who run this school James Jessup and his buddies cover it up and expect me to stay with that instructor for another 2 months before being rotated out. The school is operated by a good ole boys club and it's baffling how no one is held accountable. My craft instructor never even apologized to me for his rude inappropriate behavior. Nor did anyone in the school help me out with anything. Especially the X43 department that defended Ben Smail and didn't even hold the man accountable. Don't go to this school. There are much better schools elsewhere that teach the same thing in less time and are actually operated by professionals.

Great place to stop, sit and relax on beautiful day.

What a great opportunity this school presents to all of its employees/students. Very professional atmosphere that provides students with the ability to receive an education while getting paid on the clock. As a graduate of The Apprentice School, it has helped pave the way for my career, both in the present and definitely in the future. I highly suggest this school to everyone I know

I am a 1975 graduate of NNS Apprentice School. Before coming to the AS I studied architecture for two years. I believe the career at NNS I retired from in 2015 was far more rewarding than I would have had as an architect. I started as a X42 pipe fitter and after a year and a half progressed on to a machinery/piping design department. During my career I did either new ship or ship repair work on every type of tanker, cruise ship, and nuclear powered frigates, submarines and aircraft carriers. If you meet the requirements to become a part of NNS Apprentice School I guarantee you will have no regrets.

Very hospitable. Always feel welcome there and everyone goes out of their way to make our time there good

I am an apprentice here at the shipyard. It's been the best career choice I've ever made.

Will take your money and documents, simply go to a certified school than this third party route.NegativeCommunication, Quality, Professionalism, Value

GREAT program. Very worthwhile, and very hard to get in these days due to the number of people that want to go through it.

Great opportunities to learn a trade or profession