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Enrollment
556
Elementary
DISTRICT 535 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BENSALEM TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 420333001006
Cornwells Elementary School
2215 Hulmeville Rd, Bensalem, PA 19020 · (215) 750-2800 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL556 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
17.4:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
552 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 80 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 13% smaller than its 6th grade class (80).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
44.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.7pp since 2023
Math
41.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.8% | 41.3% |
| 2023-24 | 49.5% | 38.7% |
% 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
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% 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 Cornwells Elementary School
Cornwells Elementary School's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwells Elementary School this school | 556 | 99.3% | 45.5% |
| Meredith William M School Philadelphia | 556 | 92.6% | 85.5% |
| Shawnee Elementary School Easton | 567 | 98.8% | 64.5% |
| Linglestown Elementary School Harrisburg | 475 | 96.8% | 66.1% |
| Belmont Hills Elementary School Bensalem | 580 | 94.3% | 43.1% |
| Greenfield Albert M School Philadelphia | 742 | 98.4% | 81.4% |
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 Cornwells Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #973 of 1,396 | #62 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #981 of 1,511 ▲ 8 | #64 of 72 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #896 of 1,511 ▲ 31 | #58 of 72 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 556 | #366 of 1,638 | #26 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,481 of 1,528 | #71 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.3% | #359 of 1,531 | #10 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #357 of 1,600 | #5 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.0% | #221 of 450 | #8 of 19 |
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
556
+60 (+12%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 535
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 556 | 32.1 | 17.4:1 | 99% (552) |
| 2023-24 | 552 | 36.1 | 15.3:1 | 100% (552) |
| 2022-23 | 553 | 29.8 | 18.6:1 | 60% (332) |
| 2020-21 | 496 | 31 | 16.0:1 | 57% (285) |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 34.8 | 14.8:1 | 43% (219) |
| 2015-16 | 429 | 34 | 12.6:1 | 52% (222) |
| 2010-11 | 591 | 33 | 17.9:1 | 41% (242) |
| 2000-01 | 508 | 29 | 17.5:1 | 20% (104) |
| 1990-91 | 535 | 32 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cornwells Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (515 to 556); teachers down 8% (34.8 to 32.1).
About Cornwells Elementary School
This page covers Cornwells Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. The school counts 556 students across kindergarten through 6. The typical figure for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 443 students.
The district, Bensalem Township SD, operates 9 schools serving 6,368 students.
Cornwells Elementary School's enrollment is 61% White. Enrollment also includes 14% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Among people living in Bucks County, the White share is about 81%. The chance that two students picked at random at Cornwells Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 58%.
Cornwells Elementary School's 32.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 17.4:1. That ratio is over the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 99%. Among public schools in Bucks County, the average eligibility rate is 40%.
Cornwells Elementary School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 49% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In Pennsylvania, Cornwells Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 45.5% actual against a predicted 35.0%.
Bucks County has these Census figures: median household income is about $114,764, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. The public schools of Bucks County number 123 and enroll about 81,956.
School Lane CS is located about 0.3 miles from Cornwells Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 41.6%, lower than Cornwells Elementary School's 45.5%.
Cornwells Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 12%, from 496 to 556. The ratio was 16.0:1 in 2020-21 and 17.4:1 in 2024-25.
Discussions about Cornwells Elementary School may include school safety, transportation, and start times. 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 Bensalem Township SD
- Bensalem Twp High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
- Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 588 students
- Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
- Robert K Shafer Middle SchoolMiddle · 552 students
- Samuel K Faust Elementary SchoolElementary · 546 students
- Russell C Struble Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
Other schools in Bensalem
- Bensalem Twp High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
- School Lane CSCombined · 1,378 students
- Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 588 students
- Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
- Robert K Shafer Middle SchoolMiddle · 552 students
- Samuel K Faust Elementary SchoolElementary · 546 students
Nearby schools
- School Lane CS0.3 mi · 1,378
- Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush1.2 mi · 599
- Decatur Stephen School1.3 mi · 1,028
- Fitzpatrick Aloysius L School1.3 mi · 906
- Robert K Shafer Middle School1.4 mi · 552
- Cecelia Snyder Middle School1.4 mi · 453
Frequently asked questions
About Cornwells Elementary SchoolHow large is Cornwells Elementary School?
Cornwells Elementary School enrolls approximately 556 students in grades KG-06.
Is Cornwells Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cornwells Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cornwells Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cornwells Elementary School is approximately 17.4:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cornwells Elementary School?
At Cornwells Elementary School, the student body is approximately 61% White, 14% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Cornwells Elementary School public or private?
Cornwells Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bensalem Township SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.