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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - 1 schools
41
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc operates 1 public schools serving 41 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 59.1% local, 18.3% state, and 22.6% 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 15:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 43.3% Hispanic or Latino, 36.7% White, 16.7% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc, enrolling 30 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc accounts for 73.2% of all Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc a distant remainder — means Wilkes-Barre Area 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.
Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc reports 100.0% 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.
Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc student-counselor ratio is 15:1 — 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.
Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 41 students.
What is the demographic composition of Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc?
Wilkes-Barre Area Ctc students are 43.3% Hispanic or Latino, 36.7% White, 16.7% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.