West Side Ctc operates 1 public schools serving 401 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 Luzerne County.
The funding mix is 70.1% local, 18.7% state, and 11.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 437:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 68.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.9% White, 11.2% Hispanic or Latino, 10.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is West Side Ctc, enrolling 437 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
West Side Ctc accounts for 100.0% of all West Side Ctc student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of West Side Ctc a distant remainder — means West Side Ctc-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.
West Side Ctc reports 74.3% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
West Side Ctc student-counselor ratio is 437:1 — 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.
West Side Ctc chronic absenteeism rate is 68.9% — 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.
West Side Ctc has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 401 students.
What is the demographic composition of West Side Ctc?
West Side Ctc students are 73.9% White, 11.2% Hispanic or Latino, 10.1% African American, 0.5% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.