Ensure graduates of Pennsylvania's high schools are career ready

Create career pathways to fast-growing, 21st century jobs

Develop a skilled workforce that meets the needs of Pennsylvania's business community

Promote access to good-paying jobs for all Pennsylvanians

Pennsylvania faces a changing economy that's placing new demands on our workers and businesses. Employers are hiring, but the job-skills gap in today's workforce too often leads to a shortage of qualified job candidates. At the same time, too many workers are employed in low-wage jobs and lack the training they need to compete for in-demand careers. To meet these common challenges, state government, the education sector, labor, and industry must all work together to close the skills gap and build a well-trained workforce.

Pennsylvania's current low unemployment rate has created a tight labor market with a shortage of job applicants. Looking ahead, slow population growth and an anticipated surge in retirements present an urgent need to attract more skilled workers to our commonwealth, retain the ones who are already here, and prepare the next generation of workers for in-demand careers.

These data describe the percentages of students that attained specific education milestones and objectives. The indictor-level definitions can be found here: Future Ready Glossary

This dataset contains the number of enrollees in each program of every school that reported for the 2015-2016 to current school years.

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