Shippensburg Area MS

Shippensburg Area MS is a 6-8 campus of mid-sized scale in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Shippensburg Area SD, serveing 851 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 43% bigger than typical.

Within Shippensburg Area SD, which oversees 6 schools and 3,636 students, Shippensburg Area MS is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Shippensburg Area MS records that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest is composed of 9% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Shippensburg Area MS has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Shippensburg Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of -9.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Franklin County) logs that median household income runs about $77,003, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students), Shippensburg Area MS is one campus in the mix.

Shippensburg Area SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Shippensburg Area MS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shippensburg Area MS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Shippensburg Area MS's enrollment has increased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 782 (now 851). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 85% to 71% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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