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Reading, Pennsylvania - 1 schools
15
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Reading Muhlenberg Ctc operates 1 public schools serving 15 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 Berks County.
The funding mix is 61.0% local, 31.9% state, and 7.1% 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 60.0% White, 30.0% Hispanic or Latino, 5.0% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Reading Muhlenberg Ctc, enrolling 20 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Reading Muhlenberg Ctc accounts for 100.0% of all Reading Muhlenberg Ctc student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Reading Muhlenberg Ctc a distant remainder — means Reading Muhlenberg Ctc-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.
Reading Muhlenberg Ctc has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 73.3% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.