Chambersburg Area MS - North

Chambersburg Area MS - North is one of the well-populated middle-grades schools in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Chambersburg Area SD, with 1,072 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 80% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Across the 17 schools in Chambersburg Area SD (9,373 students total), Chambersburg Area MS - North accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Chambersburg Area MS - North lists that White students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Chambersburg Area MS - North has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at Chambersburg Area MS - North qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chambersburg Area MS - North performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,003 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Franklin County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students), of which Chambersburg Area MS - North is one.

Buchanan El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chambersburg Area MS - North. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chambersburg Area MS - North at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chambersburg Area MS - North has held roughly steady, going from 1,082 students in 2018 to 1,072 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 16% to 23% across the same window.

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