Enrollment
305
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHAMBERSBURG AREA SD·NCES 420555002196
Stevens Elementary School
800 Hollywell Ave, Chambersburg, PA 17201 · (717) 261-3470 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL305 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
13.0:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
305 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 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
55%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
24.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -8.1pp since 2023
Math
26.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 26.2% |
| 2023-24 | 32.1% | 27.1% |
% 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
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Stevens Elementary School
Stevens Elementary School's state test result (32.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens Elementary School this school | 305 | 100.0% | 32.2% |
| Hamilton Elementary School Lancaster | 339 | 98.8% | 39.0% |
| Fulton Elementary School Lancaster | 274 | 99.3% | 38.5% |
| Lehigh Parkway Elementary School Allentown | 276 | 97.1% | 52.8% |
| Freemansburg Elementary School Freemansburg | 328 | 91.2% | 21.5% |
| Ross Elementary School Lancaster | 281 | 94.0% | 40.2% |
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 Stevens Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #1,149 of 1,396 | #23 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #1,211 of 1,511 ▼ 38 | #24 of 24 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #1,297 of 1,511 ▼ 60 | #24 of 24 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 305 | #1,228 of 1,638 | #12 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #754 of 1,528 | #4 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.8% | #445 of 1,531 | #5 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #301 of 1,600 | #5 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.8% | #310 of 450 | N/A |
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
305
-49 (-14%) vs 2020
+11% since 1990-91, when it was 274
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 18.6:1
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 | 305 | 23.5 | 13.0:1 | 100% (305) |
| 2023-24 | 305 | 21.4 | 14.3:1 | 100% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 335 | 22.4 | 15.0:1 | 100% (335) |
| 2020-21 | 354 | 19 | 18.6:1 | 83% (294) |
| 2017-18 | 291 | 19.9 | 14.6:1 | 85% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 278 | 22 | 12.6:1 | 100% (278) |
| 2010-11 | 244 | 19 | 12.8:1 | 85% (208) |
| 2000-01 | 245 | 28 | 8.8:1 | 72% (176) |
| 1990-91 | 274 | 17 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stevens Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (291 to 305); teachers up 18% (19.9 to 23.5).
About Stevens Elementary School
Stevens Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Chambersburg Area SD in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Enrolled students number 305 students, in kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students each.
Stevens Elementary School is a school in Chambersburg Area SD. The district has 17 schools and 9,373 students.
At Stevens Elementary School, Hispanic students make up 64% of the student body. The next largest groups are 16% White, 12% Black, and 8% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 56 points above the 8% share among Franklin County residents. The school's diversity index is 55%, meaning two students picked at random have a 55% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at Stevens Elementary School is 23.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.0:1. That is close to the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 100%. That is 32 points above the 69% average for public schools in Franklin County.
allk12 grades Stevens Elementary School a C-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Stevens Elementary School would be expected to post about 34.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 32.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Franklin County show that the median household income is $77,003, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stevens Elementary School is one of 41 public schools in the county.
The school nearest to Stevens Elementary School is Chambersburg Area SHS, at a distance of about 0.9 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Stevens Elementary School is 8th on average proficiency.
Stevens Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
Over 4 years, Stevens Elementary School's enrollment declined 14%, to 305. By 2024-25, the school had 13.0 students per teacher, compared with 18.6 in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Stevens Elementary School. Questions from prospective families are welcome 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 Stevens Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Stevens Elementary. Stevens Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 7.
- Stevens Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 556 students
- Stevens Elementary SchoolWHEAT RIDGE, CO · 469 students
- Stevens ElementarySpokane, WA · 438 students
- Stevens Elementary SchoolAberdeen, WA · 332 students
- Stevens ElementaryDAWSON, MN · 297 students
Nearby schools
- Chambersburg Area SHS0.9 mi · 2,319
- Buchanan Elementary School1.1 mi · 251
- Benjamin Chambers Elementary School1.2 mi · 583
- Chambersburg Area MS - South1.5 mi · 1,025
- Hamilton Heights Elementary School2.1 mi · 553
- Franklin County Career and Technology Center2.1 mi · 3
Frequently asked questions
About Stevens Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Stevens Elementary School?
Stevens Elementary School enrolls approximately 305 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Stevens Elementary School serve?
Stevens Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Stevens Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Stevens Elementary School is approximately 13.0:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Stevens Elementary School?
At Stevens Elementary School, the student body is approximately 16% White, 64% Hispanic, 12% Black, 8% Two or more.
Is Stevens Elementary School public or private?
Stevens Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chambersburg Area SD.
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