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Enrollment
754
Middle
DISTRICT 711 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRISTOL TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 420423001027
Benjamin Franklin Middle School
6401 Mill Creek Rd, Levittown, PA 19057 · (215) 788-0436 · Bucks County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL754 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
754 students
DISTRICT 101% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 256 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 258 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 240 | 32% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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 Middle School→Truman SHS
Based on grade levels within Bristol Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
35.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
12.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.5% | 12.2% |
| 2023-24 | 40.6% | 12.9% |
% 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
26.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Middle School
Benjamin Franklin Middle School's state test result (26.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Middle School this school | 754 | 100.0% | 26.6% |
| Neil A Armstrong Middle School Fairless Hills | 668 | 99.3% | 25.5% |
| Swiftwater Interm School Swiftwater | 737 | 99.6% | 47.4% |
| Pottsgrove Middle School Pottstown | 678 | 99.6% | 41.3% |
| Wyoming Valley West Middle School Kingston | 1,139 | 99.5% | 22.3% |
| New Castle Junior High School New Castle | 689 | 98.8% | 17.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #428 of 479 | #26 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.2% | #457 of 513 ▼ 3 | #26 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #416 of 513 ▼ 1 | #25 of 27 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 754 | #141 of 522 | #11 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #231 of 486 | #14 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.7% | #21 of 486 | #1 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #72 of 510 | #3 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.3% | #328 of 332 | #22 of 22 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
754
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 866
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 754 | 59 | 12.8:1 | 100% (754) |
| 2023-24 | 754 | 54 | 14.0:1 | 100% (754) |
| 2022-23 | 729 | 52 | 14.0:1 | 100% (729) |
| 2020-21 | 760 | 52 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 756 | 58 | 13.0:1 | 64% (484) |
| 2015-16 | 524 | 41 | 12.8:1 | 64% (335) |
| 2010-11 | 545 | 42 | 13.0:1 | 52% (286) |
| 2000-01 | 748 | 54 | 13.8:1 | 43% (321) |
| 1990-91 | 866 | 67 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin Franklin Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (756 to 754); teachers up 2% (58 to 59).
About Benjamin Franklin Middle School
The public middle-grades school Benjamin Franklin Middle School is located in Levittown, Pennsylvania. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 754 students enrolled. For comparison, middle schools in Pennsylvania average about 594 students.
Benjamin Franklin Middle School is run by Bristol Township SD, whose 6 schools enroll 5,985 students.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Benjamin Franklin Middle School, at 47%. Beyond that, enrollment is 19% Hispanic, 17% Black, 13% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 81%. Pick two students at random and there is a 70% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its teaching staff equals 59 full-time positions, a ratio of 12.8:1. For comparison, middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 100%. The 40% average for public schools in Bucks County is 60 points lower.
Benjamin Franklin Middle School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 23% of Pennsylvania public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Benjamin Franklin Middle School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (26.6%) and its predicted rate (34.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Bucks County, the median household income is $114,764, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. There are 123 public schools in Bucks County, enrolling about 81,956 students in all.
The nearest other public school, Mill Creek Elementary School, is about 0.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Benjamin Franklin Middle School is 8th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Benjamin Franklin Middle School had 760 students in 2020-21 and 754 in 2024-25, nearly the same. The school's ratio fell from 14.6:1 to 12.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Benjamin Franklin Middle School. 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 Bristol Township SD
- Truman SHSHigh · 1,626 students
- Keystone Elementary SchoolElementary · 988 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 975 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 974 students
- Neil A Armstrong Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
Other schools in Levittown
- Truman SHSHigh · 1,626 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 975 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 974 students
- Sandburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 729 students
- Miller Elementary SchoolElementary · 486 students
- Manor Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
Other Benjamin Franklin Middle schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Benjamin Franklin Middle. Benjamin Franklin Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Benjamin Franklin MiddleRocky Mount, VA · 1,382 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolValparaiso, IN · 823 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolSpringfield, IL · 709 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolRIDGEWOOD, NJ · 627 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolWAYNE, MI · 619 students
Nearby schools
- Mill Creek Elementary School0.1 mi · 974
- Truman SHS0.4 mi · 1,626
- Miller Elementary School1.1 mi · 486
- Brookwood Elementary School1.2 mi · 975
- Bucks County Technical High School1.6 mi · 1,415
- Neil A Armstrong Middle School2.0 mi · 668
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolHow many students attend Benjamin Franklin Middle School?
Benjamin Franklin Middle School enrolls approximately 754 students in grades 06-08.
Is Benjamin Franklin Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Benjamin Franklin Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Benjamin Franklin Middle School?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Benjamin Franklin Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Benjamin Franklin Middle School?
Student demographics at Benjamin Franklin Middle School are roughly 47% White, 19% Hispanic, 17% Black, 3% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Benjamin Franklin Middle School in?
Benjamin Franklin Middle School is part of Bristol Township SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.