Bentworth El Ctr

Bentworth El Ctr operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, run under Bentworth SD. Current enrollment sits at 413 students spanning grades K through 4.

Within Bentworth SD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,060 students, Bentworth El Ctr is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Bentworth El Ctr logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 49%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bentworth El Ctr sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 36.7%; actual is 67.7%, +31.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household earnings sit near $78,958, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Washington County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students), of which Bentworth El Ctr is one.

Bentworth SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bentworth El Ctr ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bentworth El Ctr has fell 4%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 413 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 95% to 87%.

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