Six Dane County school districts are working together to create a new school that will offer both high school and college vocational classes.

The Global Academy will be open to high school juniors and seniors taking classes in four career fields: architecture and construction; health science; information technology; and science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The academy will serve students from the Verona, Middleton-Cross Plains, Belleville, McFarland, Mount Horeb and Oregon school districts.

Verona Schools Superintendent Dean Gorrell said the academy will help because there's a need for vocational and technical training that's difficult for individual districts to afford.

The districts said they hope to have a spot for the academy in the Verona School District and classes in at least one career field by fall 2010.