Mercer County Career Center
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Mercer Area SHS → Creative Learning Christian School → Stoneboro Wesleyan Methodist School → Wilmington Area JSHS → Reynolds JSHS → Grove City Area HS → Grove City Christian Academy → Lakeview Middle-HS →📋 At a glance
- Program details not reported to CRDC
- Academic signals not yet ingested for this school
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Mercer County Career Center compares for families
What families should know about Mercer County Career Center.
- ▸ LocallyPA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Mercer Area SHS, Creative Learning Christian School, Stoneboro Wesleyan Methodist School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +0.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 8 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercer Area SHS Mercer |
Public | 1.8 | 282 | -13.5% |
| Creative Learning Christian School Mercer |
Private | 2.0 | 76 | +40.7% |
| Stoneboro Wesleyan Methodist School Stoneboro |
Private | 9.0 | 51 | — |
| Wilmington Area JSHS New Wilmington |
Public | 9.9 | 288 | -16.0% |
| Reynolds JSHS Greenville |
Public | 9.9 | 269 | -11.8% |
| Grove City Area HS Grove City |
Public | 9.9 | 649 | +4.7% |
| Grove City Christian Academy Grove City |
Private | 10.3 | 209 | — |
| Lakeview Middle-HS Stoneboro |
Public | 10.3 | 261 | -13.3% |