Delaware SSP mandate
Delaware Student Success Plans (SSP), Grades 8–12
14 DE Admin. Code 507 requires a multi-year Student Success Plan for every student starting in 8th grade, spanning a minimum of 5 years including 1 year beyond high school.
In Brief
Delaware mandates a comprehensive Student Success Plan for every student in grades 8–12, with an unusually ambitious time horizon: the plan must span a minimum of 5 years, including 1 year beyond high school. This forward-looking structure, effective since 2011–12, positions SSPs as a bridge between secondary and postsecondary life. The plan must be developed and updated at least annually by the student, an advisor, at least one other staff member, and the parent or guardian.
Each SSP is grounded in real exposure to career and industry trends and the earning potential of different pathways—elements that make JobCannon's assessments and career-insight data particularly valuable. The multi-year perspective means students need tools that help them set meaningful near-term (high school) and far-term (post-secondary) goals, informed by accurate self-knowledge of their interests, skills, and aptitudes.
What SSP actually requires
Checked against 14 DE Admin. Code 507 (Student Success Planning; previously codified at 14 DE Admin. Code 505), not against a category description.
Recommended assessment battery for Delaware districts
Sequenced across the 7th-12th grade arc.
Who Delaware districts already use for SSP
Real tools and workarounds we found in use for SSP compliance — not a hypothetical shortlist.
Delaware SSP Requirements and Timeline
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 Delaware SSP mandate that source is 14 DE Admin. Code 507 - Student Success Planning. 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 Delaware 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 Delaware 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.
Delaware requires the plan to project from the current year through graduation and into the first year post-secondary (college, trade school, or workforce). This means a 9th grader's SSP looks forward to 10th, 11th, 12th, and freshman year of whatever comes next. JobCannon's assessments help students map realistic milestones for each of those years based on their interests and goals.
Career assessments like JobCannon provide validated data on real career options, typical roles in each cluster, and market positioning. When combined with industry research or guest speakers, these assessments demonstrate that the SSP is grounded in actual career realities rather than hunches, fulfilling the statute's 'exposure' requirement.
Delaware requires the student, an advisor, at least one other staff member, and a parent or guardian. JobCannon's printable Career Guide PDF and bulk-invite feature make it easy to send results to all four parties so everyone comes to the review meeting with the same data and can discuss next-year benchmarks and pathway adjustments.
Yes. The statute says the SSP 'can be revised at any time' and must be reviewed annually. If a student's interests or post-secondary goals shift, the plan is updated to reflect the change. JobCannon can be re-administered or results revisited annually, ensuring the plan stays current with each student's evolving aspirations.
The SSP is meant to be a working, dynamic document. JobCannon's assessments help students explore their strengths and interests; even students without a firm goal can use these results to identify clusters they're drawn to and start exploring options. The advisor and parent can help frame next-year goals around exploration activities and skill-building, not just a single endpoint.
Delaware does not require middle-school planning before grade 8—the SSP mandate begins in 8th grade, though earlier career exploration is beneficial and often practiced locally.