Enrollment
275
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHAMBERSBURG AREA SD·NCES 420555002216
South Hamilton Elementary School
1019 Warm Spring Rd, Chambersburg, PA 17202 · (717) 261-3449 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL275 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
18.4:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
267 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 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
47%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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
60.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.5pp since 2023
Math
47.7%
PA avg 43.0% . -8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 47.7% |
| 2023-24 | 65.5% | 56.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
60.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 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 South Hamilton Elementary School
South Hamilton Elementary School's state test result (60.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Hamilton Elementary School this school | 275 | 97.1% | 60.8% |
| Falling Spring Elementary School Chambersburg | 256 | 94.5% | 57.8% |
| Priestley School Northumberland | 250 | 98.0% | N/A |
| Riverside Elementary School West Taylor | 352 | 98.6% | N/A |
| Wallenpaupack South Elementary School Newfoundland | 254 | 98.8% | 54.5% |
| Weigelstown Elementary School Dover | 323 | 97.8% | 57.3% |
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 South Hamilton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #570 of 1,396 | #7 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #847 of 1,511 ▼ 260 | #13 of 24 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #430 of 1,511 ▲ 23 | #4 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 275 | #1,331 of 1,638 | #16 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #1,504 of 1,528 | #21 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #594 of 1,531 | #9 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.1% | #501 of 1,600 | #8 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #715 of 1,045 | #12 of 18 |
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
275
+25 (+10%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 268
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
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 | 275 | 14.9 | 18.4:1 | 97% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 267 | 15.3 | 17.4:1 | 99% (264) |
| 2022-23 | 260 | 15.6 | 16.7:1 | 55% (144) |
| 2020-21 | 250 | 15 | 16.7:1 | 44% (111) |
| 2017-18 | 301 | 17.4 | 17.3:1 | 42% (125) |
| 2015-16 | 318 | 18 | 17.7:1 | 47% (150) |
| 2010-11 | 319 | 17 | 18.8:1 | 32% (102) |
| 2000-01 | 278 | 20 | 13.9:1 | 24% (66) |
| 1990-91 | 268 | 14 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for South Hamilton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (301 to 275); teachers down 14% (17.4 to 14.9).
About South Hamilton Elementary School
South Hamilton Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It reported 275 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 38% below average.
Chambersburg Area SD (17 schools, 9,373 students) runs South Hamilton Elementary School.
The largest group at South Hamilton Elementary School is White students, at 70%. The remaining students are 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Franklin County, the White share is about 87%. The diversity index for South Hamilton Elementary School is 47%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
South Hamilton Elementary School reports a ratio of 18.4 students per teacher, from 14.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is 13.1:1. Lunch program data show 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Franklin County is 69%.
South Hamilton Elementary School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 79% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
After accounting for student poverty, South Hamilton Elementary School is in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 60.8% is 24.8 points above the 36.0% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
In Franklin County, home to about 157,379 people, median household income comes to about $77,003, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 41 public schools in the county, enrolling about 21,432, South Hamilton Elementary School among them.
South Hamilton Elementary School's nearest public school is Franklin County Career and Technology Center (about 1.8 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of South Hamilton Elementary School. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, South Hamilton Elementary School is 1st on average proficiency.
South Hamilton Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Small.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 10%, from 250 to 275. By 2024-25, the school had 18.4 students per teacher, compared with 16.7 in 2020-21.
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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 South Hamilton Elementary schools
One other US public school is named South Hamilton Elementary. South Hamilton Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- South Hamilton ElemJewell, IA · 370 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin County Career and Technology Center1.8 mi · 3
- Chambersburg Area Career Magnet School1.8 mi · 706
- Stevens Elementary School2.5 mi · 305
- Benjamin Chambers Elementary School3.2 mi · 583
- Hamilton Heights Elementary School3.3 mi · 553
- Chambersburg Area SHS3.3 mi · 2,319
Frequently asked questions
About South Hamilton Elementary SchoolHow large is South Hamilton Elementary School?
South Hamilton Elementary School enrolls approximately 275 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does South Hamilton Elementary School serve?
South Hamilton Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at South Hamilton Elementary School?
Approximately 18.4:1 students per teacher at South Hamilton Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at South Hamilton Elementary School?
Student demographics at South Hamilton Elementary School are roughly 70% White, 16% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is South Hamilton Elementary School in?
South Hamilton Elementary School is part of Chambersburg Area SD.
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