Mississippi ISP mandate
Mississippi's Individual Success Plan (ISP): Career-Centered Planning from Grade 7
Under Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards Process Standard 14.1.1, every student must develop an Individual Success Plan by the end of 7th grade (required since SY2018-19), including a 5-year career exploration plan tied to real postsecondary options.
In Brief
Mississippi's ISP is explicitly described as a process, not a single document. Starting in 7th grade, each student engages in a structured 5-year career exploration journey that connects their strengths and interests to actual career pathways—military, 2-year college, 4-year university, or apprenticeship. An interest inventory is a core component, ensuring students have assessed themselves before mapping career options.
The ISP is revisited every year through graduation, allowing students to refine their understanding of career possibilities and adjust their pathway as they mature and gain real-world experience. Mississippi's My Way portal serves as a digital hub for ISP creation and tracking, though the mandate emphasizes the career-exploration process itself over any single tool.
What ISP actually requires
Checked against Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards, Process Standard 14.1.1, not against a category description.
Recommended assessment battery for Mississippi districts
Sequenced across the 7th-12th grade arc.
Who Mississippi districts already use for ISP
Real tools and workarounds we found in use for ISP compliance — not a hypothetical shortlist.
Mississippi ISP 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 Mississippi ISP mandate that source is Individual Success Plan (ISP) Overview - Mississippi Dept of Education. 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.
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Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
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For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
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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 Mississippi district or school-level ISP 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 Mississippi 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.
An ISP must be developed prior to the end of 7th grade. This early start ensures that students have mapped their initial career exploration before entering high school.
Yes. An interest inventory is an explicit component of the ISP, helping students understand their preferences and strengths as they explore career pathways.
The ISP is a 5-year process spanning grades 7–12. It begins in 7th grade and is revisited and revised annually, allowing students to deepen their career understanding over time.
The ISP must address military service, 2-year college programs, 4-year university options, and apprenticeships/trade pathways—ensuring students see multiple legitimate pathways to career success.
Yes. JobCannon's RIASEC and Skills Audit can serve as the mandated interest inventory component, providing a validated foundation for the 5-year career exploration process.
Mississippi's mandate emphasizes the ISP as a process, not a single document, and does not mandate My Way or any specific platform—though My Way serves as the state-provided digital hub.