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Enrollment
583
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHAMBERSBURG AREA SD·NCES 420555007328
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School
481 North Franklin St, Chambersburg, PA 17201 · (717) 261-3442 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
564 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 115 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
37.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.7pp since 2023
Math
30.0%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.8% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.5% | 32.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Benjamin Chambers Elementary School
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School's state test result (39.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Chambers Elementary School this school | 583 | 96.7% | 39.4% |
| Francis H Sheckler Elementary School Catasauqua | 589 | 96.9% | 36.9% |
| Isaac Tripp Elementary School Scranton | 710 | 94.5% | 29.4% |
| Zephyr Elementary School Whitehall | 598 | 98.3% | 53.1% |
| Paxinosa Elementary School Easton | 572 | 99.7% | 25.0% |
| Clear Run El Center Tobyhanna | 658 | 99.5% | N/A |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Benjamin Chambers Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #1,072 of 1,396 | #22 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #1,152 of 1,511 ▼ 60 | #23 of 24 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #1,061 of 1,511 ▲ 1 | #20 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #293 of 1,638 | #3 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #902 of 1,528 | #7 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.2% | #132 of 1,531 | #2 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.7% | #516 of 1,600 | #10 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.5% | #757 of 1,045 | #13 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
583
+72 (+14%) vs 2020
+10% since 2010-11, when it was 529
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 583 | 43.3 | 13.5:1 | 97% (564) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 37.8 | 14.9:1 | 100% (564) |
| 2022-23 | 518 | 34.8 | 14.9:1 | 100% (518) |
| 2020-21 | 511 | 41 | 12.5:1 | 78% (399) |
| 2017-18 | 630 | 44.3 | 14.2:1 | 70% (438) |
| 2015-16 | 600 | 42 | 14.3:1 | 100% (600) |
| 2010-11 | 529 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 71% (373) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin Chambers Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (630 to 583); teachers down 2% (44.3 to 43.3).
About Benjamin Chambers Elementary School
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. In all, 583 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 32% above the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg Area SD is the local district for Benjamin Chambers Elementary School. It runs 17 schools with 9,373 students.
At Benjamin Chambers Elementary School, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 45%. Smaller groups are 27% White, 15% Black, and 12% multiracial. County-wide, 8% of Franklin County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.
The school's 43.3 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1. It is about the same as the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. At Benjamin Chambers Elementary School, 97% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Franklin County report 69%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Benjamin Chambers Elementary School outscored 35%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Benjamin Chambers Elementary School, the prediction is 36.1% and the result is 39.4%.
In the wider Franklin County area, the median household earns about $77,003 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Benjamin Chambers Elementary School shares Franklin County with 40 other public schools.
Stevens Elementary School is about 1.2 miles from Benjamin Chambers Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 48.6%, higher than Benjamin Chambers Elementary School's 39.4%.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 511 (2020-21) to 583 (2024-25). Students per teacher increased from 12.5 in 2020-21 to 13.5 in 2024-25.
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
157,379
Census ACS
Median income
$77,003
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
21,432 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chambersburg Area SD
- Chambersburg Area SHSHigh · 2,319 students
- Chambersburg Area MS - NorthMiddle · 1,072 students
- Chambersburg Area MS - SouthMiddle · 1,025 students
- Chambersburg Area Career Magnet SchoolHigh · 706 students
- Hamilton Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
- Fayetteville Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Other schools in Chambersburg
- Chambersburg Area SHSHigh · 2,319 students
- Chambersburg Area MS - NorthMiddle · 1,072 students
- Chambersburg Area MS - SouthMiddle · 1,025 students
- Chambersburg Area Career Magnet SchoolHigh · 706 students
- Hamilton Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
- Scotland Elementary SchoolElementary · 460 students
Nearby schools
- Stevens Elementary School1.2 mi · 305
- Hamilton Heights Elementary School1.2 mi · 553
- Chambersburg Area SHS1.3 mi · 2,319
- Buchanan Elementary School1.3 mi · 251
- Chambersburg Area MS - North1.9 mi · 1,072
- Chambersburg Area MS - South2.0 mi · 1,025
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin Chambers Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Benjamin Chambers Elementary School?
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School enrolls approximately 583 students in grades KG-05.
Is Benjamin Chambers Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Benjamin Chambers Elementary School have?
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
How diverse is Benjamin Chambers Elementary School?
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School reports a student body of 27% White, 45% Hispanic, 15% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Benjamin Chambers Elementary School public or private?
Benjamin Chambers Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chambersburg Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.