Cecelia Snyder MS

As a cozy middle school in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Cecelia Snyder MS works with 453 students from grades 7 through 8, run under Bensalem Township SD. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Bensalem Township SD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 6,368 students; Cecelia Snyder MS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cecelia Snyder MS logs that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 11% Black, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Cecelia Snyder MS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 101% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Bucks County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, Cecelia Snyder MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 28.1%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Bucks County put median household income runs about $114,764, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Bucks County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), of which Cecelia Snyder MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Benjamin Rush El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cecelia Snyder MS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cecelia Snyder MS's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 453). The White share of enrollment declined from 57% to 48% over that span.

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