The state of CTE across all four schools, for the graduating class picked above. School and pathway filters apply to the other tabs — this one always shows the whole district.
Strengths
Areas for improvement
Where the district is heading
Full detail, including every pathway by year, is on the Trends tab.
Pathway Analysis
CTE Pathway Retention Rate by School
Retention = completers / concentrators. Only pathways with 5+ concentrators at a school are colored. Gray = not offered or <5 concentrators. Click a cell for details.
Percentage of student-pathway-level records with a best grade of D or F, sourced from transcript data across all CTE pathways. Only pathways with 5+ graded records shown.
Based on the 2025 graduate cohort's transcripts, so each sub-pathway (e.g., Performing Arts (Dance) vs Performing Arts (Theatre) vs Professional Music) appears as its own bar. Composite score (0–100) = 40% normalized completers + 25% completion rate + 20% concentrator retention + 15% inverse D/F rate, with +5% multipliers if the pathway contains an AP CTE course or an MVC dual-enrollment CTE course. Completer = student who took at least one Capstone-level course in that pathway. Bars colored by site: Citrus Hill (blue), Orange Vista (orange), Rancho Verde (red), Val Verde (purple). Hover a bar for the score breakdown.
Understanding the Gap Year Effect
The most important — and most fixable — barrier on this page. When students skip a year between concentrator and capstone courses, completion rates drop dramatically, and scheduling the capstone the very next year is a lever the district controls. Below: which grades are skipped, which pathways are most affected, and what happens after a gap.
Pathway Completion: The Pipeline Leak
Where the students the gap-year section describes actually sit: the leak from concentrator to capstone, counted by pathway and school.
Capstone Scheduling Conflicts: Blocking Singletons
A capstone offered in only one period (a singleton) can lock students out: if that period is taken, the pathway cannot be finished at that school. Shown here are only the singleton capstones with concentrators stuck behind them — students who finished the first two courses and have no capstone on their transcript. A conflict does not prove causation, but these are the rooms to check.
Other Contributing Factors
Beyond scheduling gaps, these additional systemic factors contribute to lower CTE pathway completion rates.
Recommended Priority Actions
Program CTE Access
How many AVID, EL, and SpEd students have access to CTE pathways, including participants and completers. AVID data shows years of participation based on transcript course history.
CTE participants and completers from each program by school
Top CTE pathways ranked by number of AVID, EL, and SpEd students enrolled (Level 2 concentrators)
Program CTE Access Insights
Three-Year Trends
All three graduating classes at once. The cohort filter does not apply here — that is the point of this tab.
District rates by graduating class
Pathways started or ended
Largest movements
Every pathway, by graduating class
Transcript capstone completers, with transcript concentrators in parentheses — both from the same source, so they are comparable. Sorted by change. A dash means the pathway was not in that year’s catalog.