CTE Recruiting and Demand Capture.

A waitlist is a total, not a map. It's usually piled up in a handful of programs while others run with empty seats, and it only counts the students who already applied. The sophomore who never heard you offer HVAC, and the adult who doesn't know your evening program exists, aren't on any list. At one Ohio career center, 23 of 26 programs were full for the coming year; the openings were in cybersecurity, software programming and forestry (Springfield News-Sun). We capture interest before the application, by program and by campus, so you can see which programs need a push, which ones justify more seats, and who to call when a seat opens.

Keep them. Tours work on the students the sending school brought, and open houses work on the families already interested. AscendCTE™ reaches the rest: the sophomore whose school didn't schedule a tour this year, the parent who still pictures a 1990s shop class, the adult who doesn't know you run an evening program. They see every program on their phone, and the ones who want in raise their hand by program and campus.

We can't change their policy, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we can do is give you something to bring to that conversation: a named list of their students, and their parents, who looked at your programs and asked for more. A cap is easier to defend against a number than against a list of families from their own district.

Keep it. Your enrollment and application data tell you who already applied and who enrolled — that’s the right record for reporting, staffing and funding, and we don’t do that job. But it only ever sees the people who made it to an application. If your welding program has been full at 24 seats for six years, the data reads 24 and calls it stable — the students and adults who wanted in and never applied were never recorded anywhere, in any system you own. Your data gives you a number. It cannot give you a name. We don’t forecast demand. We capture it — the count for your board, and the named list for your recruiters.

A page tells people what programs exist. It doesn't capture who's interested, it doesn't tell you which program drew them, and it doesn't hand you a list you can take to the board when you're setting capacity. We're not replacing your website — it has to be complete and accurate for every audience, and that's a different job. Ours takes one person interested in one program and gets their name. There's also nothing for IT to build or maintain: no student-system connection, no servers, no software to install, no support tickets in the technology queue.

Your platform includes all the video assets you need to go live — program loops and :30 video promos with VO in all language options desired for each program. If you already have professionally produced videos, we'll use those.

Most are ready to review within a month.

We build, host and maintain the entire platform for you. There's nothing for your IT team to install, manage or update. No servers, no software, no lift on your end.

Your center stays in control. For high school students, we act as a school official under FERPA and we'll sign your data privacy agreement — or the SDPC National DPA, if your state alliance uses one; the high school form only collects what a school can legally collect from a student. For adults, the form is consent-gated: a name, the program they're interested in, and how to reach them. Every field is configurable: if your privacy officer would rather we collect no personal information at all, we ship that build and the platform still works. Submitted info is stored in an access-controlled, encrypted database under our sole control, hosted on U.S. cloud infrastructure. No other institution can read your records. It is never sold, never used for advertising, and never shared beyond the hosting, database, and email services that operate the platform — the same infrastructure layer any enterprise system runs on, each contractually bound to the same protections. No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no retargeting. Leads land where you tell them to — your center's own spreadsheet, your team's inbox — and you can have the records deleted at any time.

Sliding scale based on the number of programs you offer. Pricing begins at $3,000 annually, plus a one-time setup fee based on scope. We'll walk you through the math on our demo call — no surprises.

Absolutely! Your name, logo, tagline and colors - at custom subdomain (ex: northgate.ascendcte.com). Every instance is its own branded experience.