Enrollment
418
Elementary
DISTRICT 324 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNSAUKEN TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341287001624
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
7201 IRVING AVENUE, PENNSAUKEN, NJ 08109 · (856) 662-6455 · Camden County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL418 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
289 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 49 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 24% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School→Pennsauken Intermediate School
Based on grade levels within Pennsauken Township Board of Education School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
26.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
23.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.2% | 23.8% |
| 2023-24 | 25.6% | 30.3% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School's state test result (26.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary School this school | 418 | 69.1% | 26.5% |
| Julia A. Barnes School JERSEY CITY | 433 | 70.7% | 28.6% |
| Solve D'Ippolito Elementary School VINELAND | 504 | 68.7% | 36.3% |
| Berkeley Elementary School Bloomfield | 453 | 68.2% | 26.9% |
| Casimer M. Dallago Jr. Impact Center VINELAND | 341 | 71.8% | N/A |
| LaMonte-Annex Elementary School Bound Brook | 374 | 69.8% | N/A |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Benjamin Franklin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Camden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #1,029 of 1,290 | #67 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.8% | #1,087 of 1,319 ▼ 156 | #70 of 85 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #1,165 of 1,319 ▼ 24 | #69 of 85 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 418 | #642 of 1,562 | #33 of 95 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #695 of 1,390 | #40 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.3% | #524 of 1,392 | #38 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.1% | #365 of 1,481 | #14 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.9% | #327 of 545 | #25 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
418
+53 (+15%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 339
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 11.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 418 | 37 | 11.3:1 | 69% (289) |
| 2023-24 | 373 | 34 | 11.0:1 | 47% (177) |
| 2022-23 | 362 | 34.5 | 10.5:1 | 39% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 365 | 33 | 11.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 391 | 36 | 10.9:1 | 59% (231) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 28 | 13.7:1 | 55% (212) |
| 2010-11 | 446 | 18 | 24.8:1 | 60% (266) |
| 2000-01 | 639 | 39 | 16.4:1 | 39% (251) |
| 1990-91 | 339 | 15 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (391 to 418); teachers up 3% (36 to 37).
About Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in PENNSAUKEN, New Jersey. There are 418 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 3.
The 10 schools in Pennsauken Township Board of Education School District enroll 4,891 students altogether, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School among them.
Hispanic students are 60% of those enrolled at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 17% White, 14% Black, 5% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Camden County's population at about 19%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.
Teacher count: 37 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.3:1. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Roughly 69% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Camden County is 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 21% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 26.5%; the prediction is 28.3%.
Camden County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $88,755 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Benjamin Franklin Elementary School shares Camden County with 157 other public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Pennsauken Intermediate School is closest at about 0.6 miles. Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 35.5%, higher than Benjamin Franklin Elementary School's 26.5%.
For locale, NCES codes Benjamin Franklin Elementary School as Suburb: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 418, up from 365 in 2020-21.
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Camden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
527,257
Census ACS
Median income
$88,755
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
158
82,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pennsauken Township Board of Education School District
- Pennsauken High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Howard M. Phifer Middle SchoolMiddle · 988 students
- Pennsauken Intermediate SchoolElementary · 622 students
- G.H. Carson Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- Delair Elementary SchoolElementary · 301 students
- George B. Fine Elementary SchoolElementary · 245 students
Other schools in PENNSAUKEN
- Pennsauken High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Howard M. Phifer Middle SchoolMiddle · 988 students
- Camden County Technical School-PennsaukenHigh · 786 students
- Pennsauken Intermediate SchoolElementary · 622 students
- G.H. Carson Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- George B. Fine Elementary SchoolElementary · 245 students
Other Benjamin Franklin Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 7 states are named Benjamin Franklin Elementary. Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is the 10th largest of the 14.
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolEDISON, NJ · 619 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryRiverside, CA · 767 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryCorona, CA · 673 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryLa Quinta, CA · 627 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryGlendale, CA · 608 students
Nearby schools
- Pennsauken Intermediate School0.6 mi · 622
- Howard M. Phifer Middle School0.7 mi · 988
- George B. Fine Elementary School0.8 mi · 245
- Merchantville Elementary School1.0 mi · 394
- Delair Elementary School1.1 mi · 301
- Howard Yocum Elementary1.5 mi · 507
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 418 students in grades PK-03.
What age range does Benjamin Franklin Elementary School serve?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 03.
How many teachers does Benjamin Franklin Elementary School have?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
At Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, the student body is approximately 17% White, 60% Hispanic, 14% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is overseen by Pennsauken Township Board of Education School District in Camden County.
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