Industry certifications (IC) are earned through secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs and courses. High school students are encouraged to focus their elective credits on robust, career-aligned learning pathways. Robust learning pathways should culminate with the achievement of nationally recognized industry certifications, meaningful work based learning experiences, and/or attainment of postsecondary credit hours through early postsecondary opportunities.

PCSS offers twenty-five (25) industry certifications in a wide variety of career and technical areas.

Industry certifications are representative of the learning a student has mastered through the successful completion of an aligned CTE course and/or program of study as a whole. It is important that this alignment exists and that the content in the certification is not only representative of a few standards within a course.