Robert K Shafer MS

Set in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Robert K Shafer MS is a reasonably sized middle school, part of Bensalem Township SD. It hosts 552 students across grades 7 through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, Robert K Shafer MS logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic, 15% Black, 13% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bucks County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Robert K Shafer MS has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 102% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Bucks County's rate of about 40%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Robert K Shafer MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the broader community, Bucks County reports that median household income runs about $114,764, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Robert K Shafer MS is one.

Cecelia Snyder MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Robert K Shafer MS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Robert K Shafer MS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Robert K Shafer MS has decreased 3%, going from 568 students in 2018 to 552 in 2025.

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