CAREER Pathways

Ipswich High School provides a strong core curriculum designed to prepare students for a variety of post- secondary opportunities including college, technical training, and other career opportunities. While most of our students will elect to take rigorous courses in our core disciplines, other students find their passion in various elective programming. The wide variety of elective offerings provides our students an opportunity to engage in rich learning experiences, many of which have direct relevance to early career exploration or specific college/technical field related coursework. Ipswich High School has been working to identify high interest-based course sequences which we have identified as Career Pathways.

Currently, we offer a machining pathway that culminates in a capstone course that earns students an industry-recognized credential in programming a CNC (computer numeric control) machine. We are also exploring a pathway that will lead to a credential in information technology.

Each pathway will incorporate a capstone experience that requires students to connect and engage in a real world problem-solving that requires students to work collaboratively as they identify, propose, and implement solutions to important questions.

Students prior to the class of 2025 will also be able to pursue distinction in the previously identified pathways of engineering, publishing, legal studies, or visual arts.