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What tradition at Bedminster El Sch should never be changed?
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Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 364 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNRIDGE SD·NCES 421875001053
Bedminster Elementary School
2914 Fretz Valley Road, Perkasie, PA 18944 · (215) 795-2929 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% of Pennsylvania 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.
- B-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 Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
74 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 75%
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 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 59% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
60.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -15.9pp since 2023
Math
68.6%
PA avg 43.0% . -10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.9% | 68.6% |
| 2023-24 | 76.8% | 78.6% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. 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
73.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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 Bedminster Elementary School
Bedminster Elementary School's state test result (73.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedminster Elementary School this school | 399 | 18.5% | 73.6% |
| Grasse Elementary School Sellersville | 394 | 22.6% | 68.7% |
| Seylar Elementary School Perkasie | 382 | 16.8% | 68.3% |
| Deibler Elementary School Perkasie | 329 | 18.5% | 69.2% |
| East Bradford Elementary School West Chester | 455 | 17.4% | 75.4% |
| Doyle Elementary School Doylestown | 409 | 15.9% | 78.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 Bedminster Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.6% | #224 of 1,396 | #22 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.6% | #303 of 1,511 ▼ 200 | #34 of 72 ▼ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #405 of 1,511 ▼ 225 | #35 of 72 ▼ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #890 of 1,638 | #48 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,182 of 1,528 | #59 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.5% | #817 of 1,531 | #42 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.5% | #1,461 of 1,600 | #44 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #483 of 1,045 | #16 of 50 |
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
399
-42 (-10%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 564
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 399 | 27.4 | 14.6:1 | 19% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 417 | 28.3 | 14.7:1 | 18% (74) |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 26.7 | 15.7:1 | 23% (97) |
| 2020-21 | 441 | 29 | 15.2:1 | 18% (80) |
| 2017-18 | 464 | 25.5 | 18.2:1 | 21% (97) |
| 2015-16 | 451 | 24 | 18.8:1 | 17% (76) |
| 2010-11 | 487 | 27 | 18.0:1 | 15% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 531 | 28 | 19.0:1 | 9% (49) |
| 1990-91 | 564 | 28 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bedminster Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (464 to 399); teachers up 7% (25.5 to 27.4).
About Bedminster Elementary School
Bedminster Elementary School is a public elementary school in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. The school enrolls 399 students, from kindergarten through 5.
Bedminster Elementary School is one of 11 schools in Pennridge SD, which enrolls 5,968 students in total.
White students are the majority at Bedminster Elementary School, with 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. County-wide, about 81% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 37% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 27.4 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.6:1. This ratio sits 1.5 above the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Roughly 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 40% for public schools in Bucks County.
Bedminster Elementary School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 74% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Bedminster Elementary School is 3.9 points above its prediction. Actual: 73.6%. Predicted: 69.7%.
County data help place the school in context: in Bucks County, the median household income is $114,764, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bucks County is home to 123 public schools and about 81,956 public school students.
The closest public school to Bedminster Elementary School is Upper Bucks County Technical School, about 2.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Bedminster Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Rural: Fringe, meaning it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment dropped 10% from its 2020-21 level of 441.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pennridge SD
- Pennridge High SchoolHigh · 2,125 students
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Pennridge Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 456 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Grasse Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Seylar Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
Other schools in Perkasie
- Pennridge High SchoolHigh · 2,125 students
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Pennridge Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 456 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Seylar Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Pennridge South Middle SchoolMiddle · 332 students
Nearby schools
- Upper Bucks County Technical School2.1 mi · 30
- Deibler Elementary School4.6 mi · 329
- Pennridge North Middle School4.6 mi · 510
- Pennridge High School4.9 mi · 2,125
- Groveland Elementary School5.1 mi · 763
- Tohickon Middle School5.4 mi · 857
Frequently asked questions
About Bedminster Elementary SchoolHow large is Bedminster Elementary School?
Bedminster Elementary School enrolls approximately 399 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Bedminster Elementary School serve?
Bedminster Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bedminster Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bedminster Elementary School is approximately 14.6:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bedminster Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bedminster Elementary School are roughly 77% White, 15% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Bedminster Elementary School?
Bedminster Elementary School is overseen by Pennridge SD in Bucks County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.