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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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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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 - Four-Year Graduation Rate
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who graduated from high school, as measured by the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate under Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA).
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who, in the preceding reporting year, were included in the State’s computation of its graduation rate as defined in ESEA.
2S1 - Academic Proficiency in Reading Language Arts
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who achieved proficiency or higher in reading/language arts as measured by the 11thgrade academic assessment adopted for ESEA and who, in the reporting year, exited secondary education.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who took the ESEA assessment in reading/language arts and who, in the reporting year, exited secondary education.
2S2 - Academic Proficiency in Mathematics
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who achieved proficiency or higher in mathematics as measured by the 11thgrade academic assessment adopted for ESEA and who, in the reporting year, exited secondary education.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who took the ESEA assessment in mathematics and who, in the reporting year, exited secondary education.
2S3 - Academic Proficiency in Science
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who achieved proficiency or higher in science as measured by the 11thgrade academic assessment adopted for ESEA and who, in the reporting year, exited secondary education.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who took the ESEA assessment in science and who, in the reporting year, exited secondary education.
3S1 - Post-Program Placement
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who, in the second quarter after exiting from secondary education, were enrolled in postsecondary education, advanced training, military service, a service program* or were employed. (*see legislation for specific voluntary service program definition).
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who exited secondary education and responded to the follow-up survey in the preceding reporting year.
4S1 - Nontraditional Program Concentration
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators in secondary CTE programs and programs of study that lead to non-traditional fields who are a gender that comprises less than 25 percent of the individuals employed in the occupation or field of work for which the CTE program prepares students.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators in secondary CTE programs and programs of study that lead to non-traditional fields.
5S1 - Program Quality- Attained Recognized Postsecondary Credential
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who graduated from high school in the preceding reporting year who have attained a recognized postsecondary credential.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who graduated from high school in the preceding reporting year.