West Side Career & Technology Center

Located at 75 Evans Street, in Kingston, Pennsylvania, West Side Career & Technology Center is a low-enrollment secondary school that instructs 437 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by West Side Career & Technology Center. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so West Side Career & Technology Center sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

West Side Career & Technology Center sits inside West Side Career & Technology Center, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, West Side Career & Technology Center logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, West Side Career & Technology Center has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 111% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Luzerne County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Luzerne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,691 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Luzerne County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,209 students), of which West Side Career & Technology Center is one.

Nearest neighbor: Chester Street El Sch, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Side Career & Technology Center.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Side Career & Technology Center has shrank 17%, going from 524 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 87% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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