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Enrollment
580
Elementary
DISTRICT 535 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BENSALEM TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 420333005211
Belmont Hills Elementary School
5000 Neshaminy Blvd, Bensalem, PA 19020 · (215) 750-2800 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL580 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest 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 Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
547 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 80 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is 24% larger than its 6th grade class (80).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
41.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.4pp since 2023
Math
41.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +7.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.5% | 41.9% |
| 2023-24 | 45.9% | 34.3% |
% 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
43.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Belmont Hills Elementary School
Belmont Hills Elementary School's state test result (43.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont Hills Elementary School this school | 580 | 94.3% | 43.1% |
| Greenfield Albert M School Philadelphia | 742 | 98.4% | 81.4% |
| Linglestown Elementary School Harrisburg | 475 | 96.8% | 66.1% |
| Paxtonia Elementary School Harrisburg | 682 | 99.3% | 65.7% |
| Cornwells Elementary School Bensalem | 556 | 99.3% | 45.5% |
| Meredith William M School Philadelphia | 556 | 92.6% | 85.5% |
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 Belmont Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #1,016 of 1,396 | #63 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #970 of 1,511 ▲ 85 | #63 of 72 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #972 of 1,511 ▲ 37 | #61 of 72 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 580 | #304 of 1,638 | #20 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,192 of 1,528 | #61 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.6% | #244 of 1,531 | #7 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #595 of 1,600 | #10 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.6% | #863 of 1,045 | #41 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
580
+24 (+4%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 658
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 580 | 39.6 | 14.6:1 | 94% (547) |
| 2023-24 | 547 | 41.3 | 13.2:1 | 100% (547) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 34.8 | 15.5:1 | 57% (310) |
| 2020-21 | 556 | 41 | 13.6:1 | 53% (295) |
| 2017-18 | 608 | 41.3 | 14.7:1 | 35% (210) |
| 2015-16 | 460 | 39 | 11.8:1 | 44% (203) |
| 2010-11 | 533 | 41 | 13.0:1 | 34% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 563 | 30 | 18.8:1 | 18% (101) |
| 1990-91 | 658 | 33 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Belmont Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (608 to 580); teachers down 4% (41.3 to 39.6).
About Belmont Hills Elementary School
Belmont Hills Elementary School is a public elementary school in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. It enrolled 580 students in kindergarten through 6 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students each.
Bensalem Township SD operates 9 schools. Combined enrollment is 6,368 students.
White students are the majority at Belmont Hills Elementary School, with 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% Black, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 81% White. Belmont Hills Elementary School's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at Belmont Hills Elementary School total 39.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.6:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The school counts 547 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 94%. Across public schools in Bucks County, the average is 40%.
allk12 grades Belmont Hills Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Belmont Hills Elementary School is 5.9 points above its prediction. Actual: 43.1%. Predicted: 37.2%.
Bucks County has about 647,461 residents, and the median household income is $114,764, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. In all, Bucks County has 123 public schools and roughly 81,956 students.
Valley Elementary School is the public school closest to Belmont Hills Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Belmont Hills Elementary School ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 43.1% versus a 49.8% average.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at Belmont Hills Elementary School grew 4% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 556 to 580 students. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.6:1) than in 2020-21 (13.6:1).
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Bensalem Township SD
- Bensalem Twp High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
- Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 588 students
- Cornwells Elementary SchoolElementary · 556 students
- Robert K Shafer Middle SchoolMiddle · 552 students
- Samuel K Faust Elementary SchoolElementary · 546 students
- Russell C Struble Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
Other schools in Bensalem
- Bensalem Twp High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
- School Lane CSCombined · 1,378 students
- Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 588 students
- Cornwells Elementary SchoolElementary · 556 students
- Robert K Shafer Middle SchoolMiddle · 552 students
- Samuel K Faust Elementary SchoolElementary · 546 students
Other Belmont Hills Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Belmont Hills Elementary. Belmont Hills Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolBala Cynwyd, PA · 358 students
- Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolSmyrna, GA · 267 students
Nearby schools
- Valley Elementary School0.8 mi · 588
- Neshaminy High School1.1 mi · 2,916
- Tawanka Elementary School1.6 mi · 835
- Samuel K Faust Elementary School2.0 mi · 546
- Hoover Elementary School2.1 mi · 661
- Bensalem Twp High School2.2 mi · 2,151
Frequently asked questions
About Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Belmont Hills Elementary School?
Belmont Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 580 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Belmont Hills Elementary School serve?
Belmont Hills Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Belmont Hills Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Belmont Hills Elementary School is approximately 14.6:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Belmont Hills Elementary School?
At Belmont Hills Elementary School, the student body is approximately 56% White, 14% Hispanic, 12% Black, 13% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Belmont Hills Elementary School in?
Belmont Hills Elementary School is part of Bensalem Township SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.