Wilbur Watts Intermediate School

Wilbur Watts Intermediate School is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in BURLINGTON, New Jersey, operated by Burlington City Public School District, with 483 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 6.

Within Burlington City Public School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,779 students, Wilbur Watts Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Wilbur Watts Intermediate School reports that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 21% Hispanic, 16% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Burlington County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Burlington County (around 32%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wilbur Watts Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.2%; this one delivers 25.3%.

In the surrounding community, Burlington County reports that median household income runs about $108,111, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Burlington County runs 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), of which Wilbur Watts Intermediate School is one.

Burlington City High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilbur Watts Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Wilbur Watts Intermediate School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilbur Watts Intermediate School has ticked up 13%, going from 428 students in 2018 to 483 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 32% to 16%.

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