Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center

Situated at 350 Jumper Road in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center serves as a specialized public educational hub within a large suburban setting in the greater Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Functioning as an active, non-charter vocational and special education district operating out of a single facility, the center is designed to deliver targeted technical training and career preparation for secondary students in grades 9 through 12. By combining hands-on learning with practical skills development, the center provides local high schoolers with focused career pathways to help prepare them for workforce entry or post-secondary technical education.

The district fosters a focused learning environment with a current enrollment of 30 secondary students spanning its high school grade levels, with a significant concentration in 9th grade alongside 11th and 12th-grade cohorts. The student body is demographically diverse, representing Hispanic, White, Black, and American Indian students. To ensure intensive instruction and comprehensive guidance, the facility relies on an extensive professional infrastructure. The center is backed by a substantial staffing footprint of 179 full-time equivalent personnel, which includes 70 full-time equivalent teachers, 8 instructional aides, and 101 support staff members, ensuring students benefit from a low student-to-teacher ratio and robust technical support services.