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Sunbury, Pennsylvania - 5 schools
An equity score of 30/100 ranks Shikellamy Sd #519 of 648 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,906 per pupil, Shikellamy Sd ranks #656 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,810
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$12,906
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Shikellamy Sd operates 5 public schools serving 2,810 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Northumberland County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,906 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 68 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 43.1% local, 44.3% state, and 12.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 30/100, ranked #519 of 648 in Pennsylvania against a state average of 49, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (7 AP courses district-wide), a 427.2:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 29.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 70.6% White, 17.0% Hispanic or Latino, 4.5% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Oaklyn Sch, with a diversity index of 56.1/100.
Its largest campus is Shikellamy Hs, enrolling 855 students (32% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Priestley Sch, at 250 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Shikellamy Hs accounts for 30.4% of all Shikellamy Sd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Shikellamy Sd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Shikellamy Sd school enrollment varies 3.4× across entities
Shikellamy Sd school enrollment ranges from 250 students (lowest) to 855 students (highest), a spread of 605 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Shikellamy Sd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 98.5% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Shikellamy Sd student-counselor ratio is 427:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Shikellamy Sd chronic absenteeism rate is 29.3% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Shikellamy Sd is typically wider than the Shikellamy Sd-aggregate figure suggests.