Edward V. Walton Primary School

Located at 601 Mountain Ave., in Springfield, New Jersey, Edward V. Walton Primary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus that hosts 511 students (grades pre-K through 3), overseen by Springfield Public School District. That puts it 26% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Springfield Public School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,191 students. Edward V. Walton Primary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Edward V. Walton Primary School records that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest breaks down as 14% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Edward V. Walton Primary School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Edward V. Walton Primary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 12% of students at Edward V. Walton Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Union County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Edward V. Walton Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.4%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the area at large, Union County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Union County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), Edward V. Walton Primary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Edward V. Walton Primary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 22%: 651 students in 2018 compared to 511 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment increased from 7% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Edward V. Walton Primary School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.