Bridge Valley El Sch

Set in Furlong, Pennsylvania, Bridge Valley El Sch is a moderately sized elementary campus, overseen by Central Bucks SD. It works with 617 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Bridge Valley El Sch sits 39% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Central Bucks SD (16,879 students total), Bridge Valley El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Bridge Valley El Sch records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 16% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bridge Valley El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.2%; this one delivers 76.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bucks County indicate median household earnings sit near $114,764, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Bucks County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), Bridge Valley El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Middle Bucks Institute of Technology, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bridge Valley El Sch. On composite proficiency, Bridge Valley El Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 71.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Bridge Valley El Sch's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 710 (now 617). The White share of enrollment edged down from 79% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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