James Burd El Sch

As a mid-sized elementary campus in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, James Burd El Sch instructs 529 students from grades K through 3, part of Shippensburg Area SD.

Shippensburg Area SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,636 students. James Burd El Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, James Burd El Sch records that White students make up the majority at 63%; the rest comes out to 13% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 64% of students at James Burd El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Cumberland County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, James Burd El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cumberland County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Cumberland County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), James Burd El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Shippensburg Area Intrm Sch, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around James Burd El Sch. On composite proficiency, James Burd El Sch comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 18%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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