Enrollment
338
Elementary
DISTRICT 311 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHEL PARK SD·NCES 420351009977
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
5400 Florida Ave, Bethel Park, PA 15102 · (412) 854-8741 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL338 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest 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
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
66 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 72 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 20% larger than its 4th grade class (60).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School→Neil Armstrong 5-6 Middle School→Independence Middle School→Bethel Park High School
Based on grade levels within Bethel Park SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
QUIET COMMUNITY
Be the first to start a discussion at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.
START A DISCUSSIONTest scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
73.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.3pp since 2023
Math
80.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 80.5% |
| 2023-24 | 78.3% | 74.4% |
% 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
78.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School's state test result (78.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary School this school | 338 | 19.5% | 78.4% |
| Unionville Elementary School Kennett Square | 372 | 15.9% | 75.1% |
| Spring Creek Elementary School State College | 360 | 21.1% | 75.2% |
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Pittsburgh | 348 | 21.6% | 76.2% |
| South Hanover Elementary School Hershey | 371 | 19.4% | 79.7% |
| Wrightstown Elementary School Wrightstown | 399 | 18.3% | 75.8% |
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 Benjamin Franklin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.4% | #137 of 1,396 | #43 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.5% | #102 of 1,511 ▲ 64 | #33 of 141 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #162 of 1,511 ▼ 14 | #41 of 141 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 338 | #1,111 of 1,638 | #90 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,184 of 1,528 | #106 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.7% | #920 of 1,531 | #98 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.5% | #1,442 of 1,600 | #122 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.8% | #393 of 450 | #56 of 63 |
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
338
+15 (+5%) vs 2020
-28% since 2000-01, when it was 471
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 338 | 23.2 | 14.6:1 | 20% (66) |
| 2023-24 | 338 | 24.2 | 14.0:1 | 20% (66) |
| 2022-23 | 327 | 24.3 | 13.5:1 | 20% (64) |
| 2020-21 | 323 | 24 | 13.5:1 | 18% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 332 | 24.7 | 13.4:1 | 15% (49) |
| 2015-16 | 319 | 24 | 13.3:1 | 18% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 405 | 27 | 15.0:1 | 12% (49) |
| 2000-01 | 471 | 21 | 22.4:1 | 8% (38) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (332 to 338); teachers down 6% (24.7 to 23.2).
About Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is an elementary school in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, according to federal school records. In all, 338 students attend the school in kindergarten through 4. The school is 24% below the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Bethel Park SD has 3,996 students spread across 8 schools.
The share of White students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is 81%. Enrollment also includes 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. The diversity index for Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is 34%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1, with 23.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is higher. The school has 20% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Allegheny County, the average is 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 86% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School scores 78.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 69.2%.
The school is in Allegheny County, where median household income comes to about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Allegheny County's 277 public schools enroll about 141,392 students and include Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.
Bethel Park High School is about 0.8 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 75.2%; Benjamin Franklin Elementary School's is 78.4%, ranking 4th of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 338 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 323. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.5:1 to 14.6:1 over the same years.
You can use this page to share news and ask questions about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bethel Park SD
- Bethel Park High SchoolHigh · 1,244 students
- Independence Middle SchoolMiddle · 602 students
- Neil Armstrong 5-6 Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 348 students
- Bethel Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 313 students
Other schools in Bethel Park
- Bethel Park High SchoolHigh · 1,244 students
- Independence Middle SchoolMiddle · 602 students
- Neil Armstrong 5-6 Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Bethel Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 313 students
- William Penn Elementary SchoolElementary · 212 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 12th largest of the 14.
- 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
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryGlendale, CA · 608 students
Nearby schools
- Bethel Park High School0.8 mi · 1,244
- Independence Middle School1.1 mi · 602
- Bethel Memorial Elementary School1.1 mi · 342
- Neil Armstrong 5-6 Middle School1.4 mi · 597
- George Washington Elementary School1.8 mi · 313
- William Penn Elementary School1.9 mi · 212
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 338 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Benjamin Franklin Elementary School serve?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.
How diverse is Benjamin Franklin Elementary School?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School reports a student body of 81% White, 7% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in?
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is part of Bethel Park SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.