BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized primary schools in YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York, overseen by LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 466 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,232 students; BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 60% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 27% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% Black, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.0%, the actual is 66.5%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Westchester County put the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 68.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 12%, going from 528 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 15% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.