611519 Other Technical and Trade Schools

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in offering job or career vocational or technical courses (except cosmetology and barber training, aviation and flight training, and apprenticeship training). The curriculums offered by these schools are highly structured and specialized and lead to job-specific certification.

Examples Census gives

• Bartending schools
• Modeling schools
• Broadcasting schools
• Real estate schools
• Computer repair training
• Truck driving schools
• Graphic arts schools
• Specialized military training (except flight instruction, academies, and basic training)

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Offering courses in office procedures and secretarial and stenographic skills are classified in Industry 611410, Business and Secretarial Schools.
• Offering computer training (except computer repair) are classified in Industry 611420, Computer Training.
• Offering professional and management development training are classified in Industry 611430, Professional and Management Development Training.
• Offering registered nursing training with academic degrees (e.g., associate, baccalaureate) are classified in Industry 611210, Junior Colleges, or Industry 611310, College, Universities, and Professional Schools.
• Offering aviation and flight training, including military flight instruction are classified in U.S. Industry 611512, Flight Training.
• Operating college-level military academies are classified in Industry 611310, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools.
• National security and military basic training (except academies) are classified in Industry 928110, National Security.
• Offering cosmetology and barber training are classified in U.S. Industry 611511, Cosmetology and Barber Schools.
• Offering academic courses that may also offer technical and trade courses are classified according to the type of school.
• Offering apprenticeship training programs are classified in U.S. Industry 611513, Apprenticeship Training.
• Providing job training for the unemployed, underemployed, disabled, and persons who have a job market disadvantage because of lack of education, job skill, or experience are classified in Industry 624310, Vocational Rehabilitation Services.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Businesses that use this code

• Driving school

Activities listed under 611519

The Census index assigns these 38 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Acupuncture training
• Air traffic control schools
• Art schools, commercial or graphic
• Banking schools (training in banking)
• Bartending schools
• Broadcasting schools
• Bus driver training
• Chauffeur training
• Computer repair training
• Cooking schools
• Culinary arts schools
• Dental hygienist schools
• Dental technician schools
• Electronic equipment repair training
• Firefighter training schools
• Flight attendant schools
• Graphic arts schools
• Heavy equipment operation schools
• Heavy equipment repair training
• Home health aid schools
• Hospital management schools (except academic)
• Hospitality management schools (except academic)
• Marine navigational schools
• Massage therapist instruction
• Mechanic's schools (except apprenticeship)
• Medical technician schools
• Modeling schools
• Nurse's aides schools
• Nursing schools (except academic)
• Personal fitness instructor training
• Photography schools, commercial
• Police training schools
• Real estate schools
• Restaurant management schools (except academic)
• Security guard training
• Specialized military training (except flight instruction, academies, and basic training)
• Truck driving schools
• Yoga instructor training

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 611519

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 611519, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $21 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

SBA footnote 16: NAICS code 611519 – Job Corps Centers. For classifying a Federal procurement, the purpose of the solicitation must be for the management and operation of a U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center. The activities involved include admissions activities, life skills training, educational activities, comprehensive career preparation activities, career development activities, career transition activities, as well as the management and support functions and services needed to operate and maintain the facility. For SBA assistance as a small business concern, other than for Federal Government procurements, a concern must be primarily engaged in providing the services to operate and maintain Federal Job Corps Centers.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 8522), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 85200Primary educationUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

• 611511Cosmetology and Barber Schools
• 611512Flight Training
• 611513Apprenticeship Training