Arlington Elementary School

Arlington Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Fort Wayne, Indiana, run under Fort Wayne Community Schools, with 418 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 50 schools in Fort Wayne Community Schools (28,561 students total), Arlington Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Arlington Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Black, 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the resource side, On paper, Arlington Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Arlington Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Allen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,737 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Arlington Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Jefferson Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Arlington Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arlington Elementary School has shrank 13%, going from 482 students in 2018 to 418 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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