Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center

Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center is a very small high school in Altoona, Pennsylvania, (ZIP code 16602). The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 60 students. By comparison, high schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 738 students on average.

Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.

By race and ethnicity, Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center is 98% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 3%.

Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 1.8 students per teacher. Across high schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is 12.8:1.

Blair County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $62,382 a year, roughly 24% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center shares Blair County with 32 other public schools.

Altoona Area High School, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Federal data place Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Enrollment records show 28 in 2020-21 and 60 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 0.8:1 in 2020-21 to 1.8:1 in 2024-25.

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