Chambersburg Area School District | |
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Address | |
435 Stanley Ave Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Franklin County 17201-3405 United States |
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Information | |
Type | Public |
School board | 9 elected members |
Superintendent | Dr Joseph Padasak contract 2014 - June 30, 2019) |
Administrator |
Mr Steven Dart, Business Manager |
Faculty | 521 teachers in 2011 |
Grades | public preschool through 12th |
Age | 4 years Preschool to 21 years for special education |
Pupils | 8,856 pupils (2013); 8,523 pupils (2011), 8,660 pupils (2010) |
• Kindergarten | 674 (2010) |
• Grade 1 | 650 |
• Grade 2 | 673 |
• Grade 3 | 706 |
• Grade 4 | 689 |
• Grade 5 | 679 |
• Grade 6 | 665 |
• Grade 7 | 661 |
• Grade 8 | 662 |
• Grade 9 | 645 |
• Grade 10 | 675 |
• Grade 11 | 617 |
• Grade 12 | 664 |
Language | English |
Budget |
$113.9 million (2013–14) |
Per pupil spending | $10,867 (2008) |
Per pupil spending | $12,602.24 (2010) |
Website | http://www.chambersburg.k12.pa.us |
Mr Steven Dart, Business Manager
Mrs. Catherine M Dusman, Asst Superintendent
$113.9 million (2013–14)
$114 million (2012–13)
$109 million (2011–12)
$105.4 million (2010–11)
$105 million (2009–10)
The Chambersburg Area School District is a public school district located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately 250 square miles, including the borough of Chambersburg, plus the townships of Hamilton, Greene, Lurgan, and Letterkenny, and a portion of Guilford Township. It operates the following schools: Andrew Buchanan Elementary, Guilford Hills Elementary, South Hamilton Elementary, Benjamin Chambers Elementary, Hamilton Heights Elementary, Thaddeus Stevens Elementary, Lurgan Elementary, Falling Spring Elementary, Grandview Elementary, Scotland Elementary, Marion Elementary, Fayetteville Elementary, New Franklin Elementary, Chambersburg Area Middle School South, Chambersburg Area Middle School North, Chambersburg Area Senior High School and the Career Magnet School. In 2009, the US Census Bureau reported that the district's it serves a resident population of 56,283 residents had a per capita incomes of $20,572, while the districts' median family income was $47,354 a year. In school year 2005-06, Chambersburg Area School District provided basic educational services to 8,337 pupils, while employing 559 teachers, 399 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 46 administrators. The Chambersburg Area School District received more than $27 million in state funding in school year 2005-06.
The Chambersburg Area School District is governed by 9 individually elected board members (serving four-year terms), the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The federal government controls programs it funds like Title I funding for low-income children in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates the district focus resources on student success in acquiring reading and math skills.