High school (grades 9-12) · Canonsburg, PA

Western Area Ctc

Federal NCES profile for Western Area Ctc, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 20/100.

2024-25 NCES dataHigh school (grades 9-12)NCES 428046007090
0/100100/10020/100
📚 AP courses
10
🌟 Gifted program
30
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →

The verdict

Western Area Ctc earns 20/100 on the Resource Investment Index on federal resource data. It is also one of the smallest schools in Pennsylvania.

20
Resource Index · Lower
10
students enrolled

Enrollment

10

Pennsylvania · 2024-25 NCES data

Teachers (FTE)

18.0

Federal CCD staff survey

What stands out at Western Area Ctc

Western Area Ctc is a small high school in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, enrolling 10 students.

This is a small campus: fewer students than 99% of Pennsylvania schools, with 10 enrolled.

Its student body is predominantly White (100% of enrollment), among the less diverse in the state (diversity index 0/100).

Its district draws 16.0% of revenue from federal sources, an above-typical federal share that tends to track a higher-need student population.

Among Canonsburg's high schools, it stands alongside Canon-Mcmillan Shs (1,660 students): Western Area Ctc is smaller than that campus by headcount.

Western Area Ctc operates only this one school, so Western Area Ctc has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 10 students, it is also a small operation, on the smaller end of Pennsylvania's single-school districts.

Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25

How Western Area Ctc compares

Western Area Ctc on the metrics families compare, against Pennsylvania and U.S. means.

Metric This school vs Pennsylvania Pennsylvania avg U.S. avg
Enrollment 10 top 99% - -

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25

10
Bigger than 1% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.

Overview

  • Common Core of Data (June 2026): enrollment, staffing, and the student-teacher ratio above.
  • Civil Rights Data Collection: discipline counts and program access (AP, gifted, special education).
  • F-33 School District Finance Survey: the district-wide per-pupil spending figures below.

Three separate federal collections, each on its own reporting cadence - which is why this school's numbers line up on a consistent basis against every other school and state on this site, rather than mixing figures pulled from different survey years.

Student demographics

White 100.0%

Largest group: White at 100.0% of enrollment.

Student-body diversity index 0.0/100

Simpson diversity index - at 0.0, Western Area Ctc is less mixed than the Pennsylvania school average of 37.3.

Similar high schools in Canonsburg

1 comparable high schools (grades 9-12) serving the same city.

Similar high schools statewide

Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Pennsylvania, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.

Next steps

Verify locally before acting on Western Area Ctc's federal record.

Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.

Frequently asked questions about Western Area Ctc

How many students attend Western Area Ctc?

Western Area Ctc has 10 students enrolled. It is a high school in Canonsburg, PA.

What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Western Area Ctc?

The largest demographic group at Western Area Ctc is White at 100.0% of enrollment, in Canonsburg, PA.

What is the Resource Investment Index for Western Area Ctc?

Western Area Ctc has a Resource Investment Index of 20/100 (lower reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 2 factors: student-teacher ratio. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology). Limited indicators were available, so the index reflects partial data.

Is Western Area Ctc a good school?

Western Area Ctc earns 20/100 on the Resource Investment Index on federal resource data. It is also one of the smallest schools in Pennsylvania. This is a resource snapshot, not an academic rating; see the Resource Investment Index question above for what the number does and doesn't measure.

What other schools are in Western Area Ctc?

None reported; Western Area Ctc operates only Western Area Ctc as a public school district in NCES's records.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CCD + Public School Universe (2024-25), CRDC (2021-22), F-33 District Finance Survey (FY 2021-22) · 2024-25 Data as of the 2024-25 school year. Coverage from U.S. Department of Education NCES Common Core of Data. Varies by entity type; administrative districts and certain charter networks may report only a subset of fields.

All federal data sources used on this page

Full source list and how we compute each figure: methodology page.

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