Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch

Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch is an average-sized high school in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Chambersburg Area SD. The school enrolls 706 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within Chambersburg Area SD, which oversees 17 schools and 9,373 students, Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Franklin County (around 69%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.2%; this one delivers 55.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for Franklin County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,003 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch is one of 41 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students).

Franklin County Career and Technology Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chambersburg Area Career Magnet Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 9%: 650 students in 2018 compared to 706 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 81% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 27.9:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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