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Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania - 1 schools
394
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Carbon Career & Technical Institute operates 1 public schools serving 394 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Carbon County.
The funding mix is 76.3% local, 17.2% state, and 6.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 375:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 36.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.3% White, 6.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools.
Carbon Career & Technical Institute accounts for 95.2% of all Carbon Career & Technical Institute student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Carbon Career & Technical Institute a distant remainder — means Carbon Career & Technical Institute-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Carbon Career & Technical Institute student-counselor ratio is 375:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Carbon Career & Technical Institute chronic absenteeism rate is 36.0% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Carbon Career & Technical Institute's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Carbon Career & Technical Institute?
Carbon Career & Technical Institute has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 394 students.
What is the demographic composition of Carbon Career & Technical Institute?
Carbon Career & Technical Institute students are 92.3% White, 6.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.