Public school / Middle
Mechanicsburg Ms
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 421503001715
- District
- Mechanicsburg Area SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Mechanicsburg Ms is a public middle school in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, run by Mechanicsburg Area SD. It enrols 1,047 students — the 7822nd largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,047
Teachers
81.0
Students per teacher
12.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
39.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Mechanicsburg Area SD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Mechanicsburg Area Shs1,377 students
- 2Mechanicsburg Ms1,047 students
- 3Elmwood Academy707 students
- 4Kindergarten Academy346 students
- 5Upper Allen El Sch286 students
- 6Shepherdstown El Sch263 students
- 7Northside El Sch248 students
- 8Broad Street El Sch202 students
- Enrollment+105.3%
- Teachers+131.4%
- Students per teacher−4.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−23.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory