Enrollment
132
Elementary
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHIPPENSBURG AREA SD·NCES 422157001724
Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School
Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA 17257 · (717) 477-1612 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL132 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
6 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
39 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 21 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 20 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 22 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 22 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 23 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (21) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (23).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Shippensburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
48.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.3pp since 2023
Math
54.5%
PA avg 43.0% . -4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.5% | 54.5% |
| 2023-24 | 57.8% | 59.4% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School
Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School's state test result (60.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School this school | 132 | 29.5% | 60.4% |
| Leaders Heights Elementary School York | 140 | 34.3% | 66.3% |
| Patterson Primary School Beaver Falls | 141 | 35.5% | N/A |
| Tinicum Elementary School Pipersville | 135 | 16.3% | 79.0% |
| Pleasant Gap Elementary School Pleasant Gap | 215 | 29.8% | 67.1% |
| Beaver-Main Elementary School Bloomsburg | 95 | 38.9% | 82.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #581 of 1,396 | #15 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #685 of 1,511 ▼ 174 | #20 of 34 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #780 of 1,511 ▼ 89 | #24 of 34 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 132 | #1,604 of 1,638 | #37 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.5% | #1,333 of 1,600 | #33 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
132
+5 (+4%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 146
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
was 63.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 132 | 6.1 | 21.5:1 | 30% (39) |
| 2023-24 | 130 | 5.3 | 24.5:1 | 30% (39) |
| 2022-23 | 130 | 5.3 | 24.5:1 | 27% (35) |
| 2020-21 | 127 | 2 | 63.5:1 | 25% (32) |
| 2017-18 | 130 | 3 | 43.6:1 | 20% (26) |
| 2015-16 | 129 | 3 | 43.0:1 | 9% (12) |
| 2010-11 | 126 | 4 | 31.5:1 | 6% (8) |
| 2000-01 | 116 | 4 | 29.0:1 | 8% (9) |
| 1990-91 | 146 | 8 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (130 to 132); teachers up 106% (3 to 6.1).
About Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School
Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School sits in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and is classified as an elementary school. Enrollment is 132 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 5. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, enrollment here is 70% lower.
The district, Shippensburg Area SD, operates 6 schools serving 3,636 students.
Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School's enrollment is 85% White. After that, the student body is 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, Cumberland County is about 82% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 27% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 6.1 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 21.5:1. This ratio sits 8.4 above the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 30%. That is 11 points below the 41% average for public schools in Cumberland County.
allk12 grades Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 64.9% for a school in Pennsylvania with Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School posts 60.4%.
Federal survey data for Cumberland County show that the median household income is $87,494, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 57 public schools in Cumberland County, enrolling about 33,044 students in all.
The nearest public school is Nancy Grayson Elementary School, at about 1.0 miles. Around the school, 5 other public schools are within five miles. Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School places 1st of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School the locale Town: Fringe, meaning in a town close to an urbanized area.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 5 more students in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 21.5 students per teacher, compared with 63.5 in 2020-21.
Questions about school safety, transportation, and start times can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
268,323
Census ACS
Median income
$87,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
33,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Shippensburg Area SD
- Shippensburg Area SHSHigh · 1,097 students
- Shippensburg Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 851 students
- Nancy Grayson Elementary SchoolElementary · 532 students
- James Burd Elementary SchoolElementary · 529 students
- Shippensburg Area Intrm SchoolElementary · 495 students
Other schools in Shippensburg
- Shippensburg Area SHSHigh · 1,097 students
- Shippensburg Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 851 students
- Nancy Grayson Elementary SchoolElementary · 532 students
- James Burd Elementary SchoolElementary · 529 students
- Shippensburg Area Intrm SchoolElementary · 495 students
Nearby schools
- Nancy Grayson Elementary School1.0 mi · 532
- James Burd Elementary School1.1 mi · 529
- Shippensburg Area Intrm School1.2 mi · 495
- Shippensburg Area Middle School1.7 mi · 851
- Shippensburg Area SHS1.8 mi · 1,097
- Grandview Elementary School6.6 mi · 277
Frequently asked questions
About Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary SchoolHow large is Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School?
Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School enrolls approximately 132 students in grades KG-05.
Is Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School?
Approximately 21.5:1 students per teacher at Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School?
Student demographics at Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School are roughly 85% White, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School?
Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School is overseen by Shippensburg Area SD in Cumberland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.