Belmont Hills El Sch

Belmont Hills El Sch, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, overseen by Bensalem Township SD, caters to 580 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 31% larger than the state mean of about 443.

Bensalem Township SD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 6,368 students; Belmont Hills El Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Belmont Hills El Sch shows that 56% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 14% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Belmont Hills El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of +5.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bucks County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $114,764 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Belmont Hills El Sch is one of 123 public schools in Bucks County (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students).

The closest other public school is Valley El Sch, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Belmont Hills El Sch comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

Belmont Hills El Sch operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belmont Hills El Sch has decreased 5%, going from 608 students in 2018 to 580 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 61% to 56% over that span.

On allk12, the feed for Belmont Hills El Sch typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.