El Centro College - Group Campus Tours

Welcome to El Centro!

We’re excited to have you visit our campus. We offer a variety of programs on campus such as Nursing, Culinary, Surgical Careers, Fashion Design and Interior Design, Information Technology and many more.

We’ll be glad to show you around our campus. El Centro College is located at 801 Main Street Dallas, TX 75202 (across from the West End and DART station).

Please review our campus tour guidelines prior to sending in your campus tour request form.

As of right now, we only offer group tours.

Not in a group? No problem, we invite you to do a self-walk tour of our campus. Be sure to pick up a campus map in the Marketing Office, B260.

Please fill out the campus tour request form and email your completed request form to one of the tour contact persons listed below.

Thank You.

Can we have lunch on campus?

Yes. We have a Subway located in our Student Center. Your group can purchase their lunch and eat on campus. We also have a wide variety of restaurants in the West End and around the campus.

You may also have your students/group bring a brown bag lunch and purchased a drink from our vending machines.

No Coolers/Ice Chest are allowed on campus.

Please let us know if your group is planning on having lunch on our campus so we can designate an area for you.

We ask that you clean up after your group has had lunch. No drinks/food are allowed in some classroom areas.

El Centro Tour Guidelines:

Our own faculty members volunteer to speak to the groups visiting our campus. We try to accommodate every group’s request for speakers by coordinating with our faculty members and/or counselors.

During the summer months, we can not guarantee that we will have a speaker available during your tour, but we're glad to show your group around the campus.

Campus tours are scheduled during the current semester only and are available during the following dates:

Spring 2009 semester
April 30 - Last day for campus tours for Spring 09 semester.

Campus tours are only scheduled within the current semester.

No tours are available in December

Campus Tour Contacts:

Elementary & Middle Schools - Porschea Bakers, College Transition Center, 214-860-2786, pBakers@dcccd.edu
Elementary & Middle Schools - Antonio Pecina, College Community Outreach, 214-860-2364, aPecina@dcccd.edu
High Schools & other organizations - Priscilla Staley, Marketing Office, 214-860-2038, paa5210@dcccd.edu
All schools/organizations requesting a campus tour must fill out the Tour Request Form
(available here, or by calling El Centro's Marketing Office at 214-860-2037).

Your campus tour request form can be faxed back to us at 214-860-2207 (ATTN: Priscilla Staley), or email at paa5210@dcccd.edu
Tour request forms must be submitted at least two weeks before the requested date.
In order for El Centro to conduct a campus tour, the tour group must consist of at least 7 people or more, and at least one teacher/counselor must accompany the group during the entire tour.
Tours will be conducted Tuesday through Thursday, from 9-3 (morning hours may be very limited). We recommend that you coordinate your visit to begin from 12 – 2:30 p.m.

No weekend or evening tours available!
Tours are not available on Mondays & Fridays, day before/after a holiday or during the first/last 3 weeks of the semester due to final exams & staff/faculty availability.
Tours will be conducted by the Marketing staff and other campus staff members (when available).
For larger groups that have more than 10 students, the group will be broken down into two or more groups. More than one teacher or counselor from the visiting school/organization will need to accompany each group during the entire tour.
Please do not make any transportation arrangements until you receive a tour confirmation from El Centro College.

Thank you,
El Centro College