Aspen Meadow Elementary School

Aspen Meadow Elementary School, a mid-tier primary school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, operated by Northwest Allen County Schools, hosts 600 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 38% larger than typical.

Northwest Allen County Schools comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 8,409 students; Aspen Meadow Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Aspen Meadow Elementary School reports that 69% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 8% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Allen County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Aspen Meadow Elementary School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Aspen Meadow Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at Aspen Meadow Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Allen County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Aspen Meadow Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.9%; this one delivers 49.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Allen County put median household earnings sit near $70,737, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Allen County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), Aspen Meadow Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Carroll Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Aspen Meadow Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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