In Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, there is a small, rural public school system called Mount Carmel Area School District. The district is one of Pennsylvania's 500 public school districts. It serves the borough of Centralia in Columbia County as well as Mount Carmel, Kulpmont, Marion Heights, and Mount Carmel Township in Northumberland County. The area covered by the Mount Carmel Area School District is roughly 24 square miles.

Mount Carmel Area Elementary School, Mount Carmel Area Junior High School, and Mount Carmel Area High School are the three institutions run by the Mount Carmel Area School District. Additionally, the district offers full-day, taxpayer-funded preschool to 4-year-olds. More than 51 students from the Mount Carmel Area attended a full-time online school in 2015. The district doesn't have a virtual school program of its own. The students go to any of the 13 cyber schools, including the nearby SusQ Cyber Charter School, that are open in Pennsylvania in 2015.