A W Beattie Career Center
Allison Park · PA · A W Beattie Career Center · Public
📄 Shareable scorecard →Similar nearby schools
Most similar nearby schools
Steel Center for Career and Technical Education → Forbes Road Career and Technology Center → McKeesport Area Technology Center → Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center → Mercer County Career Center → Clarion County Career Center → Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center → Spectrum CS →📋 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 A W Beattie Career Center compares for families
What families should know about A W Beattie Career Center.
- ▸ LocallyPA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Steel Center for Career and Technical Education, Forbes Road Career and Technology Center, McKeesport Area Technology Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
For Parents
Follow A W Beattie Career Center
Get an email when A W Beattie Career Center's numbers change — new admissions results, enrollment shifts, test scores. A few updates a year, no spam.
🏛️ 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.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $32,875/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
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 +2.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 7 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Center for Career and Technical Education Jefferson Hills |
Public | 18.1 | 3 | — |
| Forbes Road Career and Technology Center Monroeville |
Public | 16.2 | 19 | — |
| McKeesport Area Technology Center McKeesport |
Public | 18.7 | — | — |
| Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center New Stanton |
Public | 32.2 | 5 | — |
| Mercer County Career Center Mercer |
Public | 48.1 | 8 | — |
| Clarion County Career Center Shippenville |
Public | 54.4 | 4 | — |
| Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center Johnstown |
Public | 65.3 | 14 | — |
| Spectrum CS Monroeville |
Public · charter | 16.9 | 48 | — |