Career and Technical Education allows students to gain valuable college and career experiences while allowing them to explore topics that they are passionate about. In CTE courses, students gain skills necessary to be successful in their future education or career endeavors through unique inquiry based hands-on learning opportunities.

Each high school offer courses that are aligned with  different career pathways. Students who complete one or more pathways are identified as CTE concentrators; meaning they are well prepared and have the technical skills necessary to be successful in college or the workforce.

A career academy is a smaller learning community that focuses on a career theme and is integrated into students’ studies, including their core curriculum courses. Each year, the same group (cohort) of academy students takes a Career and Technical Education course aligned with the career theme and one or more core classes together. This school-within-a-school model may be either a three- or four-year academy.

Each academy student participates in several work-based learning activities, such as job shadowing, career fairs, career-themed industry tours, and an internship. Academy students are prepared to participate in these experiences through their cohort academy courses. Each academy student must do an internship between the junior and senior years related to the academy theme. The internship requires 120 hours.