Career and Technical Education (CTE)
CTE is an award-winning program that offers a wide range of hands-on career preparation programs to high school students. Programs are held in multiple locations: high school buildings, college campuses and business and industry work sites. CTE courses reflect real-world application and maintain the rigorous requirements of the Michigan Merit Curriculum, as well as state, national and industry technical standards. Students have the opportunity to earn marketable, industry-recognized credentials.
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The application window for the 2025-26 school year is now closed. Applications for the 2026-27 school year will be accepted starting December 1.
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Class Locations
New in the 2025-2026 school year, students will have the opportunity to participate in programs at the Career Connect Campus (CCC). The inaugural class of students at the CCC will learn from industry experts in a new, state-of-the-art facility opening in August 2025 at 3500 Vanrick Drive in Kalamazoo.
Students additionally have opportunities to participate in classes at satellite locations, including the Kalamazoo Nature Center, Air Zoo, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
All satellite locations are noted by the course title.
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2025-2026 CTE Courses
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Core Performance Indicators
Federal guidelines require each Career & Technical Education (CTE) program to use certain quantitative measures to monitor the quality of the CTE program. These measures are called Core Performance Indicators and they consider academic and technical performance, graduation from high school, placement in post-secondary education, and preparation for the workforce. Kalamazoo RESA CTE programs operate under region 20, CEPD 35, which can be used to locate data within the reports found at reports.cteis.com
Definitions for the Core Performance Indicators:
- 1S1 Academic Attainment in Reading/Language Arts
- 1S2 Academic Attainment in Mathematics
- 2S1 Technical Skill Attainment
- 3S1 School Completion
- 4S1 Student Graduation Rates
- 5S1 Placement
- 6S1 Nontraditional Participation
- 6S2 Nontraditional Completion