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Enrollment
466
Elementary
DISTRICT 440 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361662001471
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3477 KAMHI DR, YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY 10598 · (914) 245-7444 · Westchester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL466 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
101 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 72% · 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→LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
68.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 76.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. 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
66.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for New York 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 York'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 (66.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 466 | 21.7% | 66.5% |
| VERNON SCHOOL EAST NORWICH | 419 | 22.7% | 67.8% |
| LIDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LONG BEACH | 468 | 20.1% | 77.0% |
| PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WARWICK | 456 | 21.3% | 74.4% |
| SCHOOL 2 OCEANSIDE | 407 | 21.9% | 59.5% |
| SCHOOL 8 OCEANSIDE | 433 | 17.8% | 65.7% |
Matched among New York 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 York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #508 of 2,335 | #47 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #672 of 2,342 ▼ 267 | #55 of 127 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #613 of 2,343 ▲ 3 | #56 of 127 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 466 | #987 of 2,585 | #74 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #836 of 2,338 | #49 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.8% | #959 of 2,388 | #57 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.7% | #2,192 of 2,534 | #87 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.7% | #1,045 of 1,757 | #41 of 100 |
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
466
-24 (-5%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 650
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 466 | 42.3 | 11.0:1 | 22% (101) |
| 2023-24 | 473 | 41.4 | 11.4:1 | 21% (98) |
| 2022-23 | 463 | 41.9 | 11.1:1 | 23% (106) |
| 2020-21 | 490 | 42 | 11.7:1 | 21% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 528 | 41 | 12.9:1 | 12% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 521 | 36 | 14.5:1 | 16% (81) |
| 2010-11 | 615 | 47 | 13.1:1 | 11% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 724 | 39 | 18.6:1 | 5% (38) |
| 1990-91 | 650 | 38 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school for students in YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 466 students.
A total of 8 schools make up LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 5,232 students enrolled.
White students are 60% of those enrolled at BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Next come 27% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% Black, and 3% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.
A staff of 42.3 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 11.0:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 22%. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County, the school's rate is lower.
Among New York public elementary schools, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 71%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is -0.5 points: 66.5% actual, 67.0% predicted.
Looking at the county, Westchester County, the median household earns about $118,976 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Westchester County has 255 public schools with about 140,968 students, including BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 490 students in 2020-21 to 466 in 2024-25.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,219 students
- LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 966 students
- WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 845 students
- VAN CORTLANDTVILLE SCHOOLElementary · 568 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 411 students
- THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 383 students
Other schools in YORKTOWN HEIGHTS
- LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,219 students
- YORKTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,105 students
- MILDRED E STRANG MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 793 students
- CROMPOND SCHOOLElementary · 559 students
- BROOKSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 522 students
- MOHANSIC SCHOOLElementary · 476 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 7th largest of the 14.
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBINGHAMTON, NY · 403 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryRiverside, CA · 767 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryCorona, CA · 673 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryLa Quinta, CA · 627 students
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolEDISON, NJ · 619 students
Nearby schools
- LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 966
- LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,219
- PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 526
- PUTNAM VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 446
- GEORGE WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 411
- CROMPOND SCHOOL1.9 mi · 559
Frequently asked questions
About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 466 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.0:1 students per teacher at BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 60% White, 27% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.