-77%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center fell 77% between 2021 and 2024 (100.0% → 23.1%).
West Virginia · Public · Predominantly certificates
Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center
Stollings, West Virginia. 28 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+36%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center are 36% above the public certificate-predominant peer median ($51.5k vs $38.0k).
-14%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center fell 14% between 2006 and 2009 (100.0% → 85.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. West Virginia
Each tile compares this institution to the West Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$51,465
West Virginia median $37,714—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry88.2%+43% · '98→'09
West Virginia median 61.2%—
At program completion28-44% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS20.0%-72% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—±0% · '01→'03
annualSECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
+43%
Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center · completion · 150% rose
60.0% → 85.7%
-72%
Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center · retention fell
81.0% → 23.1%
+101%
Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center · pell share rose
41.2% → 82.8%
+68%
Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center · earnings_median_10yr rose
$30,700 → $51,465
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in West Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center graduates earn $X” — not “Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Ralph R Willis Career and Technical Center caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.