​Career Tech Month Highlights Graduation, Placement Rate Successes

​Career Tech Month Highlights Graduation, Placement Rate Successes

Over 92 percent of Newaygo County Career and Technical Education (CTE) graduates were successfully placed in 2016, highlighting this month’s observance of CTE opportunities and achievements.  

Newaygo County students attending the CTE boast other successes worthy of celebration of CTE Month in February:  

• Newaygo County CTE students had a high school graduation rate of 97.2%, surpassing the statewide graduation rate for CTE students of 96.6 percent last year. The 2015 graduation rate (4-year cohort) for all Michigan students was 79.8 percent.
• Last year’s countywide placement rate of CTE students was...

• 92.8 percent, up 4 percent from 2015.  
• The state’s CTE placement rate has held above 90 percent in each of the past seven years.
• Newaygo County CTE programs doubled the nontraditional student successful completion rate of programs compared with the rest of the state.As an example of this CTE has twice the rate of females successfully completing programs that are commonly male-dominated fields, such as mechatronics, welding, automotive, heavy equipment, etc.                                                                    
  

“Our local results are outstanding and demonstrate the impact and importance of our CTE programs,” said NC RESA Superintendent Dr. Lori Tubbergen Clark. “CTE offers educational strategies that meet the needs of students and area employers, and provides our high school students the opportunity to earn college credentials at the Newaygo County Career Tech Center.”

​Gretchen Spedowske, NC RESA CEPD Director said, “There are many high-skill, high-demand and high-paying jobs in our region. The CTE programs at the Newaygo County Career-Tech Center are making sure our students are adequately prepared for the jobs of the future.”  

Based on an annual survey of Career-Tech students, Newaygo County’s 2016 placement rate means that 37 out of every 40 CTE students were successfully placed in colleges and universities, advanced training programs, military services, or jobs within a year of leaving high school.  

Spedowske said that CTE prepares youth and adults for a wide range of careers through hands-on, industry-based, curriculum and learning opportunities. “CTE allows students to see the relevance of core academic skills within the workplace,” she said. “CTE students also learn valuable critical thinking, employability, and job-related technical skills.”   

For more information on Newaygo County CTE programs, visit www.ncresa.org.     

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