Watkins Intermediate School

Set in Pataskala, Ohio, Watkins Intermediate School is a large elementary school, overseen by Southwest Licking Local. It educates 801 students across grades 3 through 6. That puts it 98% larger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Within Southwest Licking Local, which oversees 8 schools and 5,039 students, Watkins Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Watkins Intermediate School records that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Asian, 7% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Watkins Intermediate School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at Watkins Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Watkins Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.7%, the actual is 76.0%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Licking County put median household income runs about $84,426, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Watkins Intermediate School is one of 63 public schools in Licking County (combined enrollment of about 29,815 students).

Watkins Memorial High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Watkins Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Watkins Intermediate School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 72.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 22%: 654 students in 2018 compared to 801 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Watkins Intermediate School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.