Chambersburg Area SHS

Chambersburg Area SHS is a high school of expansive scale in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Chambersburg Area SD, enrolling 2,319 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 214% above the state mean of about 738.

Chambersburg Area SD comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 9,373 students; Chambersburg Area SHS is among them.

On demographics, Chambersburg Area SHS records that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 29% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 133 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at Chambersburg Area SHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Franklin County (around 69%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chambersburg Area SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.7%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of -6.6 points.

Across the wider county, Franklin County reports that median household income runs about $77,003, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Franklin County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students), of which Chambersburg Area SHS is one.

Buchanan El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Chambersburg Area SHS comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

Chambersburg Area SHS operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chambersburg Area SHS has edged up 10%, going from 2,112 students in 2018 to 2,319 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 63% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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