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Connellsville, Pennsylvania - 1 schools
343
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center operates 1 public schools serving 343 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 Fayette County.
The funding mix is 64.0% local, 30.1% state, and 5.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 592:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 54.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.1% White, 2.0% African American, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Connellsville Area Career & Technical Ce accounts for 100.0% of all Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center a distant remainder — means Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center-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.
Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 60.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center student-counselor ratio is 592:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center chronic absenteeism rate is 54.2% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center'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 Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center?
Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 343 students.
What is the demographic composition of Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center?
Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center students are 93.1% White, 2.0% African American, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.2% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.