Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center

Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center operates as an one-room-style secondary school in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, overseen by Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center. Current enrollment sits at 30 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 96% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center sits inside Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 37% White, 17% Black, 3% Native American. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 0.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 3817% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Luzerne County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Luzerne County put the typical household earns roughly $63,691 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center is one.

Solomon/Plains El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center operates from a bedroom-community location.

On the community side, members of the Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.