Adams Elementary School

As a compact primary school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Adams Elementary School teaches 308 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Fort Wayne Community Schools. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Adams Elementary School sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

Fort Wayne Community Schools comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 28,561 students; Adams Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Adams Elementary School logs that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Black, 16% multiracial, 14% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Adams Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Adams Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Allen County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, Adams Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.7%, the actual is 12.1%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Across the wider county, Allen County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,737, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Adams Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Memorial Park Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Adams Elementary School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 28.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Adams Elementary School has climbed 14%, going from 270 students in 2018 to 308 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 12% to 1% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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