PEIMS Career and Technical Education Indicator Code Calculation
Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Indicator Code is a calculated value based on the student’s course completion data for all years in which the student could have taken a High School CTE course. The Career and Technical Education Indicator Code will be calculated by TEA for all students in grades 06-12.
The Career and Technical Education Indicator Code is a TEA-calculated value using PEIMS Summer (SUMR) and Extended Year (EXYR) course completion data. The reports are available after TEA closes each submission (submission and resubmission) and CTE auto-calculation has been processed and quality assurance has been completed. For PEIMS Summer (SUMR) resubmission, the reports are updated after year-round schools have completed their submissions and the auto-calculation is rerun.
Reports that display the calculated value will be available approximately two weeks after each submission closes.
The possible calculated Career and Technical Education Indicator Code values are described below and can also be viewed in PEIMS code table C142 CAREER-AND-TECHNICAL-ED-IND-CD.
CTE Codes 6 and 7:
Course completion records must have a Course Sequence Code (C135) of 0, 2, 5, 9, D0, D2, D5, or D9 and a Pass/Fail Indicator (C136) of 1 or 8 to be considered in the calculation. Additionally, only certain CTE courses are considered when determining Concentrators (Code 6) and Completers (Code 7). The list of valid service IDs can be found on the following link: https://tea.texas.gov/academics/college-career-and-military-prep/career-and-technical-education/approved-cte-programs-study.
CTE Program Concentrator (Code 6) A student who completes and passes two or more high school CTE courses for a total of at least two credits within the same Program of Study and not a Completer.
CTE Program Completer (Code 7) A student who completes and passes three or more high school CTE courses for a total of four or more credits, including one level three or level four course from within the same Program of Study.
Note: A student may be a Concentrator or Completer in more than one program of study. A student may be a Concentrator in one or more programs of study and also a Completer in one or more programs of study.
CTE Codes 5 and E:
Course completion records must have a Course Sequence Code (C135) of 0, 2, 5, 9, D0, D2, D5, or D9 to be considered in the calculation. Pass/Fail Indicators are not considered in the calculation.
CTE Program Participant (Code 5) A student who completes either one high school CTE course for any number of credits or more than one high school CTE course for less than two credits (the student does not have to pass or receive credit).
CTE Program Explorer (Code E) A student who completes two or more high school CTE courses for a total of two or more credits and not a Participant, Concentrator or Completer (the student does not have to pass or receive credit) or;
A student who completes, passes, and receives enough credits to be coded as Concentrator or Completer in a Regional Program of Study, but completes the year in an unapproved region.
CTE Code 4:
All students not coded a 5, E, 6 or 7 will be coded as a 4. This includes students that have never been enrolled in a CTE course, students that take middle school CTE courses, and students that only complete the first parts of multiple part CTE courses.
Not CTE (Code 4) A student who never completed any high-school CTE courses.
State and Federal Clusters are assigned to each program of study and are used for reporting purposes.
Calculation Scenarios:
|
Scenario |
Calculated CTE Indicator |
Notes |
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Student never enrolls in a CTE course. |
4 |
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Student only completes the course College and Career Readiness (12700300). This is a middle-school CTE course. |
4 |
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Student only completes the first part of any two-part CTE course. |
4 |
The student is a code 4 because they did not complete the last part of a multi-part course. |
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Student completes and passes all parts of the course Principles of Applied Engineering (13036200) and all parts of the course Introduction to Aircraft Technology (13039350). |
E |
Principles of Applied Engineering and Introduction to Aircraft are not in the same program of study. |
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Student completes all parts of the course Principles of Applied Engineering (13036200) but does not pass the course. |
5 |
The student completed one CTE course, so they are not coded a 4. The student only completed one course and did not complete and pass two CTE courses, so they are not a code E or code 6 (if within the same program of study, passed both and received at least 2 credits). |
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Student completes and passes all parts of Foundations of Cybersecurity (03580850) and Computer Programming I (13027600). |
6 |
Student is a code 6 because both courses are in the same program of study. |
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Student completes and passes all parts of Principles of Biosciences (13036300), Biotechnology I (13036400) and Biotechnology II (13036450). |
6 |
Student is a code 6 because all courses are in the same program of study. |
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Student completes and passes all parts of Principles of Applied Engineering (13036200), Manufacturing Engineering Technology I (13032900), Aerospace Engineering (PLTW) (N1303745) and Scientific Research and Design (13037200). |
7 |
Student is a code 7 because all courses are in the same program of study. |
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Student completes and passes all parts of Principles of Manufacturing (13032200), Principles of Applied Engineering (13036200), Robotics I (13037000), and Robotics II (13037050). |
7 |
Student is a code 7 because three or more courses are in the same program of study for four or more credits, and one of them is a level 3 or 4 course. |