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Mercer, Pennsylvania - 1 schools
7
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mercer County Career Center operates 1 public schools serving 7 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 Mercer County.
The funding mix is 73.6% local, 20.2% state, and 6.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mercer County Career Center, enrolling 8 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Mercer County Career Center accounts for 100.0% of all Mercer County Career Center student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mercer County Career Center a distant remainder — means Mercer County Career 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.