NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Bethel Park, PA

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7 public K-12 schools in Bethel Park from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
3,648
Students
61.4/100
Avg Resource Index
13.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bethel Park has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bethel Park's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Bethel Park's 7 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Bethel Park's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 99th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 18-point gap between George Washington El Sch and Independence Ms measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 61%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
73rd percentile

Bethel Park Hs accounts for 34.1% of all Bethel Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Bethel Park-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bethel Park school enrollment varies 5.9× across entities

Bethel Park school enrollment ranges from 212 students (lowest) to 1,244 students (highest), a spread of 1,032 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bethel Park operates one school district — a single-district system

Bethel Park's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bethel Park student-teacher ratio is 13.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. George Washington El Sch 69
2. William Penn El Sch 66
3. Bethel Memorial El Sch 65
4. Benjamin Franklin El Sch 63
5. Neil Armstrong 5-6 Ms 59
6. Bethel Park Hs 57
7. Independence Ms 51

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bethel Park

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Bethel Memorial El Sch 46.6/100
  2. 2 Benjamin Franklin El Sch 33.6/100
  3. 3 William Penn El Sch 30.1/100
  4. 4 Neil Armstrong 5-6 Ms 29.6/100
  5. 5 Independence Ms 26.4/100

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Which Bethel Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

George Washington El Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bethel Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bethel Park, PA? ▼

Bethel Park has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,648 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.