Carbon Career & Technical Institute

Carbon Career & Technical Institute is one of the small high schools in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Carbon Career & Technical Institute, with 375 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 49% below the state mean of about 738.

Operationally, Carbon Career & Technical Institute answers to Carbon Career & Technical Institute, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Carbon Career & Technical Institute shows that nearly all students (92%) are White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Carbon County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Carbon County (around 65%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carbon Career & Technical Institute sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.5%; this one delivers 48.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Carbon County) logs that median household income runs about $67,554, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Carbon Career & Technical Institute is one of 18 public schools in Carbon County (combined enrollment of about 8,111 students).

The closest other public school is L B Morris El Sch, roughly 0.3 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carbon Career & Technical Institute at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 406 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.