Cedar Canyon Elementary School

Cedar Canyon Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Fort Wayne, Indiana, operated by Northwest Allen County Schools, with 508 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Northwest Allen County Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 8,409 students. Cedar Canyon Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Cedar Canyon Elementary School logs that nearly all students (83%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 10% of students at Cedar Canyon Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Allen County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cedar Canyon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 60.5%, a residual of -8.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Allen County) logs that median household income runs about $70,737, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Cedar Canyon Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Perry Hill Elementary School, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cedar Canyon Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 583 students in 2018 compared to 508 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Cedar Canyon Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.