Fountain Woods Elementary School

Fountain Woods Elementary School, a well-populated K-5 school in BURLINGTON, New Jersey, run under Burlington Township School District, serves 951 students, covering grades 2 through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Fountain Woods Elementary School sits 135% bigger than that benchmark.

Burlington Township School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 3,572 students. Fountain Woods Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Fountain Woods Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black at 38%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 26% White, 18% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Burlington County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Fountain Woods Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Burlington County indicate median household earnings sit near $108,111, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Burlington County runs 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), of which Fountain Woods Elementary School is one.

Burlington Township High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fountain Woods Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fountain Woods Elementary School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 34.3%.

Fountain Woods Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Fountain Woods Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 12% since 2018, when it stood at 846 (now 951). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 40% to 26%.

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