Bloomingdale Elementary School

Bloomingdale Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana, overseen by Fort Wayne Community Schools. The school teaches 331 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Bloomingdale Elementary School sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Fort Wayne Community Schools runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 28,561 students. Bloomingdale Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bloomingdale Elementary School logs that 31% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 28% White, 24% Black, 13% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Bloomingdale Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Allen County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Bloomingdale Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Allen County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,737 per year, 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 Bloomingdale Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Smith Academy for Excellence, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bloomingdale Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bloomingdale Elementary School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 26.2%.

Bloomingdale Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bloomingdale Elementary School has decreased 6%, going from 352 students in 2018 to 331 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 47% to 28% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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