Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center

Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center is a 9-12 campus of intimate scale in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, run under Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center, serveing 592 students in grades 9 through 12.

Operationally, Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center answers to Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% Black. Compared to Fayette County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 27.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 22.3%, a residual of -13.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Fayette County shows median household income runs about $58,236, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center is one of 39 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students).

Nearest neighbor: Connellsville Area MS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 44.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 562 (now 592). Class-load math has widened: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 27.9:1 in 2025.

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