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Why it matters
What’s happening?
Career growth
A 2023 high growth report from the Texas Work- force Commission predicts 762,000 jobs will open by 2030, which exceed the statewide annual median pay of $43,463. This includes 215 “high-wage occu- pations” within 13 different industries, including construction, manufacturing and health care. Texas is expected to add 2.3 million new jobs by 2030, with only 39.3% expected to require some form of postsecondary education or training, the data shows. A significant portion of these jobs are expected to be in the professional, scientific and technical services industries, followed by health care and construction. Additionally, a 2024 report on Texas Growth Occupation from the TWC shows Texas is expected to have one of the fastest-growing labor forces in the nation at 14.7% by 2032, exceeded only by Utah.
Career and technical education is growing in Katy and Lamar Consolidated ISDs as the statewide need for non-degree jobs continues to soar. KISD offers over 130 CTE courses, including its new water operations certificate in partnership with Inframark, while LCISD offers over 40 areas of study and an incoming career center slated for fall 2026. “Many students find these courses especially meaningful because they see a clear connection between what they’re learning and real-world careers,” LCISD CTE Coordinators Pam Fyke and Kristin Gann said in an email. Data from the October 2023 Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Houston Education Research Consortium showed over two-thirds of Houston-area high school graduates qualified as “CTE graduates” from 2013-2019.
2022 job numbers 2032 job numbers
2023 annual median salary
Pharmacy Technician
Truck driver
Chef
Welder
Carpenter
30K
20K
10K
0
$48,111 $47,240 $47,964 $58,442 $47,743
SOURCE: 2024 REPORT ON TEXAS GROWTH OCCUPATION FROM THE TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION/COMMUNITY IMPACT
CTE programs
KISD and LCISD offer a number of different CTE courses, including:
By the numbers
CTE student enrollment
LCISD
KISD
Transportation
Culinary
As LCISD nears its new CTE center’s opening, program enrollment numbers have spiked from 12,701 in 2024-25 to over 20,000 students enrolled for the upcoming 2025-26 school year. The four most popular programs include hospitality and tourism, agriculture, health science and STEM. In KISD, CTE continues trending upward, top- ping 30,000 students in the 2023-24 school year. The three most popular programs include agricul- tural sciences, health science and engineering.
40K
33,517
Cosmetology
Welding
27,943
30K
Law enforcement
20,541
Pharmacy
20K
10,317
Carpentry
Agriculture
10K
0
SOURCES: KATY ISD, LAMAR CISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
2021-22
SOURCES: KATY ISD, LAMAR CISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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