Original Research by School Decision on W a Lecroy Career Technical Center
W A Lecroy Career Technical Center is a career and technical school in Clanton, Alabama, serving students in grades nine through twelve as part of the Chilton County School District. The school is designed for high school students who want to build job-specific skills alongside their regular academic coursework, a focus that shapes everything about its identity and how a family should think about it.
Because this is a career and technical center, not a comprehensive high school, several of the standard metrics a parent might look for simply do not apply here. State testing data is not reported for this school, which is typical for a specialized center where students are typically enrolled for part of the day and take their core academic classes and assessments through their home high school. There is no graduation rate reported for this campus, again because the home school issues the diploma. When parents ask about academic performance or test results, the answer at this school is that those measures belong to the student’s base high school, not to the technical center where they come for specialized training.
The school’s enrollment data is reported as zero across all grades, which is a record-keeping artifact; in practice, students are enrolled at their home high school and attend Lecroy for career training, so they are not counted as separate full-time students at this campus. Enrollment by race and ethnicity is recorded as zero counts across every category for the same reason. No free-or-reduced-price lunch data, special education data, or English learner data is reported at the school level, all of which is consistent with how the state and NCES account for part-time career center attendance.
The school is not a charter school and has no magnet designation. Title I status is not reported. No information on discipline, course access, staffing, or attendance is available in the data provided. This is common for specialized centers where those functions are managed by the home school. The comparison fact-set for districts in Chilton County shows that the entity has no applicable data for proficiency, graduation rate, or chronic absenteeism. With only one district in the county, that comparison set is not meaningful in practical terms.
Clanton is the county seat, positioned roughly halfway between Birmingham and Montgomery on Interstate 65. Its economy blends agriculture, centered on the peach industry, with industrial employment from automotive parts manufacturers. The city is car-dependent, with a small downtown area offering some shops and murals. Chilton County Transit provides dial-a-ride bus service. The Chilton County School District includes several campuses spread across the city, with Lecroy listed alongside Chilton County High School, Clanton Middle School, Clanton Intermediate School, and Clanton Elementary School in the broader district footprint.
No specific recent district-level changes such as policy shifts, curriculum updates, or property tax measures were found in available sources for the Chilton County School District. That absence means a parent should check with the district directly for any current developments that could affect the operation of the career center or the pathways available.
For a family evaluating Lecroy, the central question is whether their student is enrolled at a Chilton County high school and wants to pursue career and technical training. The school’s purpose is to prepare students for skilled trades, technical fields, and direct workforce entry. A parent who expects to find test scores, graduation rates, or a traditional academic profile will not find them here, because this school does not measure itself that way. What it offers is a clear pathway: if a student is already in the district’s high schools and wants a hands-on, career-focused supplement to their core education, this center is the vehicle for that. The quality of that experience is not captured in the typical data available through this report, and a parent would need to visit, talk to the staff, and understand which specific programs are offered to get a full picture.
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