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What's one thing Bon Meade El Sch gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
572
Elementary
DISTRICT 326 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOON AREA SD·NCES 421583000240
Bon Meade Elementary School
1595 Brodhead Rd, Moon township, PA 15108 · (412) 264-9440 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL572 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
16.2:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
106 students
DISTRICT 33% · 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 | 114 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 120 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 119 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 123 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
Bon Meade Elementary School→Moon Area Lower Middle School→Moon Area Upper Middle School→Moon Area SHS
Based on grade levels within Moon Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
75.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.4pp since 2023
Math
87.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.3% | 87.4% |
| 2023-24 | 81.7% | 83.4% |
% 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
84.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Bon Meade Elementary School
Bon Meade Elementary School's state test result (84.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bon Meade Elementary School this school | 572 | 18.5% | 84.1% |
| Skippack Elementary School Collegeville | 557 | 18.0% | 76.6% |
| Buck Elementary School Langhorne | 571 | 19.1% | 72.7% |
| Chatham Park Elementary School Havertown | 582 | 15.6% | 83.4% |
| Maureen M Welch Elementary School Churchville | 521 | 18.4% | 63.0% |
| Vernfield Elementary School Telford | 517 | 22.2% | 70.2% |
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 Bon Meade Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.1% | #49 of 1,396 | #20 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.4% | #32 of 1,511 ▲ 12 | #20 of 141 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.3% | #124 of 1,511 ▼ 21 | #35 of 141 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 572 | #325 of 1,638 | #24 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #1,406 of 1,528 | #130 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.9% | #794 of 1,531 | #84 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.5% | #1,463 of 1,600 | #124 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.3% | #295 of 450 | #41 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
572
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 431
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 572 | 35.4 | 16.2:1 | 19% (106) |
| 2023-24 | 587 | 36 | 16.3:1 | 18% (106) |
| 2022-23 | 594 | 37.6 | 15.8:1 | 16% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 576 | 35 | 16.5:1 | 16% (95) |
| 2017-18 | 543 | 36.4 | 14.9:1 | 18% (98) |
| 2015-16 | 419 | 27 | 15.5:1 | 21% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 549 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 11% (61) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 32 | 17.2:1 | 8% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 431 | 23 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bon Meade Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (543 to 572); teachers down 3% (36.4 to 35.4).
About Bon Meade Elementary School
Bon Meade Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school located in Moon township, Pennsylvania. It enrolls 572 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 4. That is 29% bigger than the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Moon Area SD has 4,100 students in 8 schools, and Bon Meade Elementary School is one of those schools.
At Bon Meade Elementary School, 77% of students are White. Other students are 7% Asian, 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Census estimates put Allegheny County at about 76% White, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for Bon Meade Elementary School is 39%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 35.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 16.2 students per teacher. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is higher. Roughly 19% of students at Bon Meade Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Allegheny County, the average is 54%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Bon Meade Elementary School outscored 96%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Bon Meade Elementary School would be expected to post about 69.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 84.1%.
In Allegheny County, the median household earns about $78,548 a year, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county's public schools total 277, with about 141,392 students.
Measured in a straight line, J.A. Allard Elementary School is about 1.5 miles from Bon Meade Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Bon Meade Elementary School is ahead of the 69.3% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Bon Meade Elementary School had 576 students in 2020-21 and 572 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
Bon Meade Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Moon Area SD
- Moon Area SHSHigh · 1,211 students
- Moon Area Lower Middle SchoolMiddle · 639 students
- Moon Area Upper Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- J H Brooks Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Richard J. Hyde Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
- McCormick Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
Other schools in Moon township
- Moon Area SHSHigh · 1,211 students
- Moon Area Lower Middle SchoolMiddle · 639 students
- Moon Area Upper Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- J H Brooks Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Richard J. Hyde Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
- McCormick Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
Nearby schools
- J.A. Allard Elementary School1.5 mi · 209
- Quaker Valley High School2.2 mi · 550
- Moon Area Lower Middle School2.5 mi · 639
- Moon Area Upper Middle School2.5 mi · 621
- Edgeworth Elementary School2.5 mi · 412
- Moon Area SHS2.6 mi · 1,211
Frequently asked questions
About Bon Meade Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bon Meade Elementary School?
Bon Meade Elementary School enrolls approximately 572 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Bon Meade Elementary School serve?
Bon Meade Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bon Meade Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bon Meade Elementary School is approximately 16.2:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bon Meade Elementary School?
At Bon Meade Elementary School, the student body is approximately 77% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Bon Meade Elementary School?
Bon Meade Elementary School is overseen by Moon Area SD in Allegheny County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.