Regular local school district · Columbia County
Benton Area SD, PA: schools, enrollment and spending
Benton Area SD runs 3 public schools with 611 students in grades K to 12. Its ratio of 10.4 students per teacher is 3.1 lower than the Pennsylvania figure of 13.5.
At a glance
- Schools
- 3
- Students
- 611
- Teachers (FTE)
- 59
- Students per teacher
- 10.4
- PA: 13.5 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 600 Green Acres Rd, Benton, PA 17814
- Phone
- (570)925-6651
- County
- Columbia County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- K to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 4203390
- State district ID
- PA-116191004
- Total staff (FTE)
- 109
- School counselors (FTE)
- 2.0About 306 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 2.0
Students per teacher compared
This district10.4
Pennsylvania13.5
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (653), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $14.0 million
- Federal revenue
- $630,000
- State revenue
- $6.4 million
- Local revenue
- $6.9 million
- Total spending
- $13.7 million
- Spending per pupil
- $20,992
- Salaries
- $5.7 million41.3% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $8.2 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 4.5%
- State: 46.0%
- Local: 49.5%
Pennsylvania overall
- Federal: 8.2%
- State: 33.0%
- Local: 58.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$20,992
Pennsylvania$21,044
United States$16,826
Schools in Benton Area SD
By level: 1 high, 1 middle, 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Benton Area High School | High | 9 to 12 | 200 | 10.5 |
| Benton Area Middle School | Middle | 7 to 8 | 100 | 11.1 |
| L R Appleman El Sch | Elementary | K to 6 | 308 | 9.9 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Columbia County
- Central Columbia SD 1,897 students
- Bloomsburg Area SD 1,496 students
- Southern Columbia Area SD 1,198 students
- Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School 609 students
- Millville Area SD 527 students
More in Pennsylvania
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.