Stevens El Sch

Located at 800 Hollywell Ave, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Stevens El Sch is a tight-knit primary school that serves 305 students (grades K through 5), part of Chambersburg Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Stevens El Sch sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Chambersburg Area SD comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 9,373 students; Stevens El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Stevens El Sch logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% White, 12% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Franklin County (around 69%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Stevens El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Franklin County shows median household income runs about $77,003, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Stevens El Sch is one of 41 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students).

The closest other public school is Chambersburg Area SHS, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Stevens El Sch comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 291 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 16% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.