Lehigh Career & Technical Institute operates 1 public schools serving 33 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 Lehigh County.
The funding mix is 76.1% local, 17.9% state, and 6.0% 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 4.4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 77.3% White, 13.6% Hispanic or Latino, 4.5% African American across the district's schools.
Lehigh Career & Technical Institute accounts for 66.7% of all Lehigh Career & Technical Institute student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lehigh Career & Technical Institute a distant remainder — means Lehigh Career & Technical Institute-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Lehigh Career & Technical Institute reports 97.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Lehigh Career & Technical Institute student-counselor ratio is 4:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Lehigh 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 Lehigh Career & Technical Institute?
Lehigh Career & Technical Institute has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 33 students.
What is the demographic composition of Lehigh Career & Technical Institute?
Lehigh Career & Technical Institute students are 77.3% White, 13.6% Hispanic or Latino, 4.5% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.