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Enrollment
851
Middle
DISTRICT 606 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHIPPENSBURG AREA SD·NCES 422157001729
Shippensburg Area Middle School
101 Park Place, Shippensburg, PA 17257 · (717) 530-2750 · Franklin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL851 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- C+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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
498 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 278 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 294 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 279 | 33% |
Student demographics
48%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
Shippensburg Area Middle School→Shippensburg Area SHS
Based on grade levels within Shippensburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
47.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
33.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.8% | 33.2% |
| 2023-24 | 54.8% | 33.9% |
% 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
43.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Shippensburg Area Middle School
Shippensburg Area Middle School's state test result (43.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shippensburg Area Middle School this school | 851 | 58.5% | 43.4% |
| East Pennsboro Area Middle School Enola | 618 | 50.0% | 43.2% |
| Northeastern Middle School Mount Wolf | 595 | 51.4% | 40.5% |
| Poquessing Middle School Feasterville Trevose | 966 | 45.1% | 45.6% |
| Klinger Middle School Southampton | 599 | 46.9% | 51.0% |
| Ephrata Middle School Ephrata | 601 | 53.1% | 45.9% |
Matched among Pennsylvania middle 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 Shippensburg Area Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #307 of 479 | #4 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #300 of 513 ▼ 14 | #3 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #308 of 513 ▼ 25 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 851 | #93 of 522 | #4 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #366 of 486 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.7% | #175 of 486 | #3 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.5% | #201 of 510 | #5 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.8% | #60 of 131 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
851
+68 (+9%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 610
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 851 | 59.2 | 14.4:1 | 59% (498) |
| 2023-24 | 846 | 60.7 | 13.9:1 | 59% (498) |
| 2022-23 | 786 | 54.7 | 14.4:1 | 55% (431) |
| 2020-21 | 783 | 47 | 16.7:1 | 48% (379) |
| 2017-18 | 782 | 46.6 | 16.8:1 | 42% (327) |
| 2015-16 | 748 | 42 | 17.8:1 | 38% (284) |
| 2010-11 | 809 | 50 | 16.2:1 | 29% (233) |
| 2000-01 | 784 | 48 | 16.3:1 | 21% (167) |
| 1990-91 | 610 | 48 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shippensburg Area Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (782 to 851); teachers up 27% (46.6 to 59.2).
About Shippensburg Area Middle School
Shippensburg Area Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, (ZIP code 17257). The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 851 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 43% bigger than the 594-student average for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
Shippensburg Area Middle School is one of 6 schools in Shippensburg Area SD, which enrolls 3,636 students in total.
More than half of the students at Shippensburg Area Middle School are White (71%). Other reported shares: 9% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% Black, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 87% White among all Franklin County residents. The diversity index for Shippensburg Area Middle School is 48%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 59.2 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1. Middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1, 1.2 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 59% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 69% average among public schools in Franklin County.
Shippensburg Area Middle School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 36% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Shippensburg Area Middle School is 52.5%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 43.4%.
In Franklin County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $77,003, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 41 public schools in the county, enrolling about 21,432, Shippensburg Area Middle School among them.
Shippensburg Area SHS sits about 0.2 miles from Shippensburg Area Middle School. Around the school, 6 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Shippensburg Area Middle School ranks 8th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around Shippensburg Area Middle School as Town: Fringe, meaning in a town close to an urbanized area.
The school's enrollment increased 9% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Students per teacher dropped from 16.7 in 2020-21 to 14.4 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Shippensburg Area Middle School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Shippensburg Area SD
- Shippensburg Area SHSHigh · 1,097 students
- Nancy Grayson Elementary SchoolElementary · 532 students
- James Burd Elementary SchoolElementary · 529 students
- Shippensburg Area Intrm SchoolElementary · 495 students
- Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary SchoolElementary · 132 students
Other schools in Shippensburg
- Shippensburg Area SHSHigh · 1,097 students
- Nancy Grayson Elementary SchoolElementary · 532 students
- James Burd Elementary SchoolElementary · 529 students
- Shippensburg Area Intrm SchoolElementary · 495 students
- Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary SchoolElementary · 132 students
Nearby schools
- Shippensburg Area SHS0.2 mi · 1,097
- Nancy Grayson Elementary School0.8 mi · 532
- Grace B Luhrs Univ Elementary School1.7 mi · 132
- James Burd Elementary School2.1 mi · 529
- Shippensburg Area Intrm School2.3 mi · 495
- Grandview Elementary School4.9 mi · 277
Frequently asked questions
About Shippensburg Area Middle SchoolHow many students attend Shippensburg Area Middle School?
Shippensburg Area Middle School enrolls approximately 851 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Shippensburg Area Middle School serve?
Shippensburg Area Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Shippensburg Area Middle School?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at Shippensburg Area Middle School.
How diverse is Shippensburg Area Middle School?
Shippensburg Area Middle School reports a student body of 71% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% Black, 8% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Shippensburg Area Middle School?
Shippensburg Area Middle School is overseen by Shippensburg Area SD in Franklin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.