Public school / Primary
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
Yorktown Heights, New York
- NCES ID
- 361662001471
- District
- Lakeland Central School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is a public primary school in Yorktown Heights, New York, run by Lakeland Central School District. It enrols 463 students — the 42087th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
463
Teachers
41.0
Students per teacher
11.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
22.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Lakeland Central School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lakeland-Copper Beech Middle School1,247 students
- 2Lakeland High School942 students
- 3Walter Panas High School901 students
- 4Van Cortlandtville School575 students
- 5Benjamin Franklin Elementary School463 students
- 6Lincoln Titus Elementary School433 students
- 7George Washington Elementary School410 students
- 8Thomas Jefferson Elementary School399 students
- Enrollment+2.2%
- Teachers+10.8%
- Students per teacher−1.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−60.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory