Connecticut SSP mandate
Connecticut Student Success Plans (SSP), Grades 6–12
Connecticut General Statutes § 10-221a mandates an SSP for every student from grade 6 onward, with career exploration and manufacturing/STEM emphasis.
In Brief
Connecticut law requires every student in grades 6–12 to have a Student Success Plan that includes career and academic choices, with evidence of career exploration at each grade level. Since 2020, the statute explicitly requires students to consider computer science and STEM career pathways, reflecting the state's economic priorities. In 2024, Public Act 24-45 expanded this to include awareness of Connecticut's Technical Education and Career System.
The breadth of Connecticut's mandate—covering 7 years from 6th grade—creates a powerful opportunity to use formative career assessments in middle school to build student awareness of their interests and skills, then deepen that work in high school with more intensive STEM and manufacturing pathway exploration. JobCannon's grades 6–8 battery integrates perfectly into this progression.
What SSP actually requires
Checked against Connecticut General Statutes § 10-221a, not against a category description.
Recommended assessment battery for Connecticut districts
Sequenced across the 7th-12th grade arc.
Who Connecticut districts already use for SSP
Real tools and workarounds we found in use for SSP compliance — not a hypothetical shortlist.
Connecticut SSP and Career Exploration Requirements
Related on JobCannon
This page is one of 38 verified career-plan mandate pages JobCannon tracks, each citing a primary statute or regulation — for the Connecticut SSP mandate that source is Connecticut General Statutes § 10-221a - High school graduation requirements. For the broader rollout picture, see career assessments for school districts, or the JobCannon for Business hub.
District-tier pricing
Scale is $199/mo and covers 200 people per billing period — one person, however many assessments they take, and a class-code arrival counts the same as an emailed invite. Growth is $999/mo for 1,000. Above that, or where enrolment should not be metered at all, it is an Enterprise conversation rather than a larger self-serve plan. A district-sized enrolment runs out of the monthly tiers quickly — the Education Licence below prices your whole enrolment per student for the year, assessments uncapped, and adds the full career and skills corpus.
Free
For micro-teams trying the platform
- ▸10 candidate invites/month (resets the 1st of each month)
- ▸All 164+ assessments
- ▸Premium result for every candidate you invite
- ▸Every candidate profile fully open — nothing blurred
- ▸Share link via email or Slack
- ▸Free trial of the coordinator dashboard
Starter
For solo coaches and small HR
- ▸30 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸All 164+ assessments
- ▸Premium report (archetype + blind spots + work-style brief)
- ▸Coach notes per candidate
- ▸PDF export (client-ready)
- ▸Session prep recommendations
- ▸Candidate progress tracking
Team
For startups, teams and HR
- ▸80 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
- ▸Team DNA dashboard
- ▸Compatibility matrix
- ▸Conflict-pattern detection
- ▸Compare 2-3 team members
- ▸Manager prep briefings
- ▸Shared admin access (2 seats)
Scale
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
- ▸200 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Team
- ▸Integrity + social-desirability scales (fake-good detection)
- ▸White-label PDFs (your logo)
- ▸Full assessment API (start, score, retrieve results)
- ▸Custom assessment builder (beta)
- ▸Admin seats not billed per seat
- ▸Priority email support
Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸Invoice / PO billing, not just card
- ▸Named support contact with a response-time target
- ▸Annual billing option
Enterprise
For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸SLA (99.9% uptime)
- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
- ▸Custom integrations built against your tenant (Greenhouse and Ashby ship today)
- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
Self-serve checkout via Stripe — major cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link. Cancel anytime; 14-day money-back on every paid plan. Enterprise via the contact form below.
Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for Connecticut district or school-level SSP rollouts. Assessments uncapped, career and skills corpus included — multiply your own enrolment by the band and you have the most this can cost before you talk to us.
$1.25 down to $0.80 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
That multiplication is a ceiling, not a bill. If our self-serve plans would cover the same number of students for less, you are quoted the lower figure — we do not sell an institution its own students back at a higher price than anyone can buy them for on the pricing page.
District
A large school, multi-school district or trust
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
State system
A statewide or national programme
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that a self-serve plan already covers your whole roll for less than a licence would, so that is what we will point you at — and UK schools have the flat whole-school licence above at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
Request a Connecticut district pilot
Tell us how many students you expect to assess in a term and what your review process asks for. If something on your requirements list is not in the product, we will say so in the reply rather than in the pilot.
Connecticut requires evidence but does not prescribe the method. Career assessments like JobCannon's Multiple Intelligences (grades 6–8) or RIASEC (grades 9–12) create documented, comparable data points across years. When paired with reflections on results, these assessments provide the kind of sustained, grade-by-grade evidence the statute calls for.
JobCannon's RIASEC results include industry and career cluster data that can surface manufacturing and skilled-trades roles aligned to each student's profile. Counselors can use these results to prompt conversations about manufacturing pathways, ensuring every student has at least considered this option.
Public Act 24-45 expanded the SSP to include awareness of Connecticut's Technical Education and Career System. This means students must know what dual-enrollment, early-college, and technical pathway options exist. JobCannon's career results can flag students who appear well-suited for technical education, supporting early referrals and informed decision-making.
Absolutely. JobCannon's middle-grades battery (Multiple Intelligences, Career Match, Skills Audit) works for grades 6–8, and the full RIASEC plus Career Match for grades 9–12. Using assessments across both spans creates a longitudinal record of each student's evolving interests and confirms the grade-by-grade exploration the statute requires.
Connecticut's SSP is part of the high school graduation requirements framework. The career and academic choices documented in the SSP inform course selection and pathway decisions. JobCannon's assessments help ensure that each student's SSP reflects a thoughtful, data-informed exploration of their interests and capabilities.
Connecticut does not mandate a specific career assessment tool or digital platform—the statute requires career exploration evidence and SSP documentation, but the tools and methods are locally chosen.