Benjamin Franklin El Sch

Benjamin Franklin El Sch operates as an intimate elementary-level community in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, run under Bethel Park SD. Current enrollment sits at 338 students spanning grades K through 4. That puts it 24% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Benjamin Franklin El Sch is one of 8 schools operated by Bethel Park SD, a district that instructs 3,996 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Benjamin Franklin El Sch logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Benjamin Franklin El Sch logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Benjamin Franklin El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.2%, the actual is 78.4%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Allegheny County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Benjamin Franklin El Sch is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Bethel Park HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Benjamin Franklin El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 75.2%.

Benjamin Franklin El Sch operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 332 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 91% to 81%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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