Enrollment
283
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MECHANICSBURG AREA SD·NCES 421503001711
Shepherdstown Elementary School
1849 S York St, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 · (717) 691-4589 · Cumberland County
GRADES 01–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL283 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
13.8:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
99 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 35% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 33% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 32% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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 Mechanicsburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
69.4%
PA avg 51.1% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
64.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.4% | 64.7% |
| 2023-24 | 63.6% | 58.0% |
% 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
63.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Shepherdstown Elementary School
Shepherdstown Elementary School's state test result (63.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherdstown Elementary School this school | 283 | 35.0% | 63.9% |
| York Avenue Elementary School Lansdale | 291 | 34.4% | 64.9% |
| Conewago Elementary School York | 343 | 35.3% | 58.3% |
| Neff School Lancaster | 283 | 34.3% | 69.4% |
| Forge Road Elementary School Palmyra | 341 | 34.0% | 59.7% |
| Pine Street Elementary School Palmyra | 342 | 34.5% | 78.7% |
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 Shepherdstown Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #476 of 1,396 | #12 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #406 of 1,511 ▲ 128 | #7 of 34 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #223 of 1,511 ▲ 280 | #3 of 34 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 283 | #1,306 of 1,638 | #29 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,018 of 1,528 | #17 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.9% | #524 of 1,531 | #21 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.0% | #1,249 of 1,600 | #26 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #942 of 1,045 | #20 of 21 |
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
283
+51 (+22%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 276
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 283 | 20.5 | 13.8:1 | 35% (99) |
| 2023-24 | 278 | 21.2 | 13.1:1 | 36% (99) |
| 2022-23 | 263 | 19.9 | 13.2:1 | 36% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 232 | 20 | 11.6:1 | 41% (96) |
| 2017-18 | 291 | 18.6 | 15.7:1 | 23% (67) |
| 2015-16 | 254 | 16 | 15.9:1 | 22% (57) |
| 2010-11 | 216 | 16 | 13.5:1 | 19% (42) |
| 2000-01 | 303 | 17 | 17.8:1 | 7% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 276 | 14 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shepherdstown Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (291 to 283); teachers up 10% (18.6 to 20.5).
About Shepherdstown Elementary School
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is home to Shepherdstown Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school. The school counted 283 students in 2024-25, covering grades 1 through 3. The school is 36% below the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Shepherdstown Elementary School is run by Mechanicsburg Area SD, whose 8 schools enroll 4,621 students.
More than half of the students at Shepherdstown Elementary School are White (68%). Next come 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, and 6% multiracial. That compares with about 82% White among all Cumberland County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 51%.
For every teacher at Shepherdstown Elementary School, there are about 13.8 students; the school has 20.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 99 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 35% of enrollment.
Shepherdstown Elementary School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 57% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
The model predicts 62.6% for a school in Pennsylvania with Shepherdstown Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Shepherdstown Elementary School posts 63.9%.
American Community Survey estimates for Cumberland County show that the median household earns about $87,494 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Cumberland County has 57 public schools with about 33,044 students, including Shepherdstown Elementary School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Upper Allen Elementary School, is about 0.1 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Shepherdstown Elementary School ranks 4th of 8 on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Shepherdstown Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count rose 22% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 13.8:1, from 11.6:1.
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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 Mechanicsburg Area SD
- Mechanicsburg Area SHSHigh · 1,412 students
- Mechanicsburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Elmwood AcademyElementary · 712 students
- Kindergarten AcademyElementary · 321 students
- Upper Allen Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- Broad Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 239 students
Other schools in Mechanicsburg
- Cumberland Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,163 students
- Mechanicsburg Area SHSHigh · 1,412 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,403 students
- Mechanicsburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Eagle View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Winding Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,055 students
Other Shepherdstown Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Shepherdstown Elementary. Shepherdstown Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Shepherdstown Elementary SchoolShepherdstown, WV · 310 students
Nearby schools
- Upper Allen Elementary School0.1 mi · 321
- Mechanicsburg Middle School0.3 mi · 1,112
- Elmwood Academy1.9 mi · 712
- Kindergarten Academy2.0 mi · 321
- Mechanicsburg Area SHS2.1 mi · 1,412
- Broad Street Elementary School2.2 mi · 239
Frequently asked questions
About Shepherdstown Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Shepherdstown Elementary School?
Shepherdstown Elementary School enrolls approximately 283 students in grades 01-03.
Is Shepherdstown Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Shepherdstown Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades 01-03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Shepherdstown Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Shepherdstown Elementary School is approximately 13.8:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Shepherdstown Elementary School?
Student demographics at Shepherdstown Elementary School are roughly 68% White, 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Shepherdstown Elementary School in?
Shepherdstown Elementary School is part of Mechanicsburg Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.