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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Shippensburg Area Ms

Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
422157001729
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Shippensburg Area Ms is a public middle school in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, run by Shippensburg Area SD. It enrols 786 students — the 14851st largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.

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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

786students

14851st nationally, tied with 43

Teachers

54.0FTE

12575th nationally, tied with 527

Students per teacher

14.6students

43668th nationally, tied with 927

Free or reduced-price lunch

54.8%percent

45678th nationally, tied with 117

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.

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Within Shippensburg 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Shippensburg Area Shs1,138 students
  2. 2Shippensburg Area Ms786 students
  3. 3James Burd El Sch502 students
  4. 4Shippensburg Intrm Sch487 students
  5. 5Nancy Grayson El Sch486 students
  6. 6Grace B Luhrs Univ Elem130 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Pennsylvania median across 2,956 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+54.1%
  • Teachers+54.3%
  • Students per teacher+8.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+7.0%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.