Aldo Leopold Intermediate School

Set in Burlington, Iowa, Aldo Leopold Intermediate School is a mid-sized 6-8 campus, operated by Burlington Comm School District. It educates 412 students across grades 5 through 6.

Burlington Comm School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,140 students. Aldo Leopold Intermediate School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Aldo Leopold Intermediate School logs that 61% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 16% multiracial, 16% Black, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Des Moines County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Des Moines County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Aldo Leopold Intermediate School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 62.8%; this one comes in at 47.5%, -15.3 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Des Moines County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,928, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Des Moines County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,632 students), Aldo Leopold Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sunnyside Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Aldo Leopold Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Aldo Leopold Intermediate School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 61.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Aldo Leopold Intermediate School has expanded 14%, going from 362 students in 2018 to 412 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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