Chambersburg Area Senior High School
high school in Pennsylvania, United States
Chambersburg Area Senior High School (CASHS) is a public high school located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The school serves grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. Students come from Chambersburg and surrounding townships of Hamilton, Greene, Lurgan, Letterkenny and Guilford.
As of the 2020–2021 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,182 students and 118.06 classroom teachers on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 18.48. CASHS has occupied its current facilities since 1955.
Enrollment
As of the 2023-2024 academic school year, 2,324 students attended Chambersburg Area Senior High School. Of these students, there were 562 freshmen, 574 sophomores, 585 juniors, and 603 seniors. The student body was predominantly Caucasian (53.7%), and the largest minorities represented were Hispanics (29.5%) and Black Americans (8.4%). 6.6% of the school's students identified as being mixed or two or more races. 60% of the student body were economically disadvantaged.
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