Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem

Set in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem is a rural-scale elementary-level community, run under Shippensburg Area SD. It instructs 132 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem sits 70% below that benchmark.

Within Shippensburg Area SD, which oversees 6 schools and 3,636 students, Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem lists that nearly all students (85%) are White. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cumberland County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.9%, the actual is 60.4%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cumberland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cumberland County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), of which Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem is one.

Nancy Grayson El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem has changed only slightly, going from 130 students in 2018 to 132 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 43.6:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

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