Enrollment
292
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHAMBERSBURG AREA SD·NCES 420555007579
Marion Elementary School
145 Colorado St, Chambersburg, PA 17202 · (717) 375-2360 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL292 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 44% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
15.8:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
266 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
32.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -16.1pp since 2023
Math
39.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.6% | 39.9% |
| 2023-24 | 48.7% | 41.9% |
% 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
45.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 Marion Elementary School
Marion Elementary School's state test result (45.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marion Elementary School this school | 292 | 91.1% | 45.6% |
| Marcus Hook Elementary School Marcus Hook | 237 | 91.1% | 39.9% |
| Chester Street Elementary School Kingston | 294 | 97.6% | 35.2% |
| Barth Elementary School Pottstown | 321 | 97.5% | 55.4% |
| Reeceville Elementary School Coatesville | 384 | 94.0% | 28.1% |
| Rupert Elementary School Pottstown | 379 | 98.7% | 42.6% |
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 Marion Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.6% | #968 of 1,396 | #19 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #1,005 of 1,511 ▼ 80 | #20 of 24 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #1,151 of 1,511 ▼ 203 | #23 of 24 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 292 | #1,271 of 1,638 | #14 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,361 of 1,528 | #15 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.3% | #57 of 1,531 | #1 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.1% | #648 of 1,600 | #17 of 25 |
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
292
+111 (+61%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 60.3:1
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 | 292 | 18.5 | 15.8:1 | 91% (266) |
| 2023-24 | 266 | 17.7 | 15.0:1 | 100% (266) |
| 2022-23 | 214 | 14.5 | 14.8:1 | 100% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 181 | 3 | 60.3:1 | 58% (105) |
| 2017-18 | 162 | 8.8 | 18.3:1 | 54% (88) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Marion Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 80% (162 to 292); teachers up 110% (8.8 to 18.5).
About Marion Elementary School
Marion Elementary School is a small elementary school. Its address is in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 292 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 34% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg Area SD has a total of 17 schools and 9,373 students, Marion Elementary School among them.
No group is above 50% at Marion Elementary School; the largest is White, at 37%. It is also 28% Black, 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Franklin County's residents are about 87% White, 50 points above the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Marion Elementary School scores 72%.
Marion Elementary School reports a ratio of 15.8 students per teacher, from 18.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 2.7 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Marion Elementary School, 91% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 69% average for public schools in Franklin County is 23 points.
Marion Elementary School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 44% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Marion Elementary School is 7.1 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 45.6% actual, 38.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
The school is in Franklin County, where median household income comes to about $77,003, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Franklin County counts 41 public schools with about 21,432 students.
A public school about 2.8 miles away, Franklin County Career and Technology Center, is the closest to Marion Elementary School. Marion Elementary School has 5 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 51.0%, higher than Marion Elementary School's 45.6%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2020-21 the school reported 181 students, and in 2024-25 it reported 292. Grade changes, mergers, or boundary shifts can explain gaps this large. The ratio of students to teachers went from 60.3:1 to 15.8:1 over the same years.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Marion Elementary School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
157,379
Census ACS
Median income
$77,003
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
21,432 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chambersburg Area SD
- Chambersburg Area SHSHigh · 2,319 students
- Chambersburg Area MS - NorthMiddle · 1,072 students
- Chambersburg Area MS - SouthMiddle · 1,025 students
- Chambersburg Area Career Magnet SchoolHigh · 706 students
- Benjamin Chambers Elementary SchoolElementary · 583 students
- Hamilton Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
Other schools in Chambersburg
- Chambersburg Area SHSHigh · 2,319 students
- Chambersburg Area MS - NorthMiddle · 1,072 students
- Chambersburg Area MS - SouthMiddle · 1,025 students
- Chambersburg Area Career Magnet SchoolHigh · 706 students
- Benjamin Chambers Elementary SchoolElementary · 583 students
- Hamilton Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
Other Marion Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Marion Elementary. Marion Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 10.
- Marion Elementary SchoolBelle Vernon, PA · 635 students
- MARION ELEM.ST LOUIS, MO · 496 students
- MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMARION, NY · 335 students
- Marion Elementary SchoolMarion, NC · 333 students
- Marion ElementaryMarion, VA · 298 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin County Career and Technology Center2.8 mi · 3
- Chambersburg Area Career Magnet School2.8 mi · 706
- South Hamilton Elementary School3.6 mi · 275
- New Franklin Elementary School3.6 mi · 206
- Stevens Elementary School4.9 mi · 305
- Greencastle-Antrim SHS5.3 mi · 982
Frequently asked questions
About Marion Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Marion Elementary School?
Marion Elementary School enrolls approximately 292 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Marion Elementary School serve?
Marion Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Marion Elementary School have?
Marion Elementary School employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
How diverse is Marion Elementary School?
Marion Elementary School reports a student body of 37% White, 24% Hispanic, 28% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Marion Elementary School?
Marion Elementary School is overseen by Chambersburg Area SD in Franklin County.
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