Chambersburg Area MS - South

As a high-enrollment intermediate school in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Chambersburg Area MS - South serves 1,025 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Chambersburg Area SD. That puts it 73% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Chambersburg Area MS - South is one of 17 schools operated by Chambersburg Area SD, a district that serves 9,373 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Chambersburg Area MS - South reports that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 30% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 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, Chambersburg Area MS - South shows 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Chambersburg Area MS - South higher than the state norm the norm. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chambersburg Area MS - South performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 45.4%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Franklin County shows median household earnings sit near $77,003, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students), Chambersburg Area MS - South is one campus in the mix.

Buchanan El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chambersburg Area MS - South. On composite proficiency, Chambersburg Area MS - South comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chambersburg Area MS - South has contracted 3%, going from 1,061 students in 2018 to 1,025 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 51% across the same window.

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