Bedminster El Sch

Located at 2914 Fretz Valley Road, in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, Bedminster El Sch is a medium-sized elementary school that serves 399 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Pennridge SD.

Pennridge SD comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 5,968 students; Bedminster El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bedminster El Sch lists that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Bedminster El Sch has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Bedminster El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bedminster El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.7%; this one delivers 73.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bucks County indicate median household earnings sit near $114,764, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Bucks County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), Bedminster El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Upper Bucks County Technical School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bedminster El Sch comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 464 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 86% to 77%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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