West Virginia PEP mandate
West Virginia's Personalized Education Plan (PEP): 12 Credits Tailored to Each Student's Path
Under WVBE Policy 2510, every student in grades 8–12 develops a Personalized Education Plan that accounts for 12 of their 22 graduation credits, beginning with middle school career exploration.
In Brief
West Virginia's Personalized Education Plan (PEP) is the state's most comprehensive career and academic planning mandate, distinguishing itself by making 12 of 22 high school graduation credits flexible and student-centered. Beginning in 8th grade—supported by the state's Social and Emotional Advisory System for Student Success—students collaborate with educators, counselors, and families to design a PEP that aligns 12 credits to their individual academic strengths, career interests, and post-secondary goals. The remaining 10 credits are prescribed by the state. This structure ensures rigor while maximizing personalization.
The PEP is collaborative by design. Students don't create plans alone; the process involves ongoing dialogue between the student, parents or guardians, teachers, and counselors. This partnership model helps ensure the PEP is realistic, attainable, and truly reflective of the student's aspirations. PEPs evolve throughout high school as students gain work experience, take courses, and refine their goals.
What PEP actually requires
Checked against WVBE Policy 2510 (Assuring the Quality of Education: Regulations for Education Programs), not against a category description.
Recommended assessment battery for West Virginia districts
Sequenced across the 7th-12th grade arc.
Who West Virginia districts already use for PEP
Real tools and workarounds we found in use for PEP compliance — not a hypothetical shortlist.
West Virginia PEP Key Facts
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 West Virginia PEP mandate that source is West Virginia Board of Education Policy 2510. 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
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- ▸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
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- ▸80 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
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- ▸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
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- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
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- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
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Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for West Virginia district or school-level PEP 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 West Virginia 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.
The PEP's defining feature is that 12 of 22 graduation credits are personalized to each student's goals and interests. While other states ask 'how do we fit the student into our program?', West Virginia asks 'how do we design a program around the student?' This structural flexibility, combined with a collaborative planning process, makes West Virginia's model distinctly student-centered.
The student, their parents or guardians, teachers, and school counselors all participate in PEP development and review. It's a true collaboration; no one party designs the plan in isolation. This ensures the PEP reflects the student's aspirations, the family's values, and the school's capacity to support it.
PEP planning begins in 8th grade with support from the state's Social and Emotional Advisory System for Student Success (SEASS). This early introduction to career exploration and self-reflection sets the foundation for high school pathway decisions.
All 22 credits are required for graduation. Twelve are personalized to the student's PEP (career interests, academic goals, electives); 10 are prescribed by West Virginia to ensure all graduates meet common academic standards in core subject areas.
JobCannon can administer career interest assessments (RIASEC, Multiple Intelligences, Skills Audit) during 8th grade to help students discover their strengths and interests. These assessments inform the PEP collaboration and help students and families make intentional choices about which 12 credits to personalize.
West Virginia's PEP mandate does not legally require a formal career assessment tool; career exploration and interest discovery are implied as part of the collaborative planning process, but the specific assessment method is left to the school.