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Enrollment
416
Elementary
DISTRICT 429 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT WAYNE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 180363000525
Franke Park Elementary School
828 Mildred Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46808 · (260) 467-6925 · Allen County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL416 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of Indiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
303 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
33.2%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
26.9%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.0%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Franke Park Elementary School
Franke Park Elementary School's state test result (28.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franke Park Elementary School this school | 416 | 72.8% | 28.8% |
| Vinton Elementary School Lafayette | 387 | 74.4% | 35.8% |
| Concord South Side Elementary Sch Elkhart | 394 | 71.3% | 32.4% |
| William McKinley School 39 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | 386 | 70.2% | 32.4% |
| Riverview Elementary School Marion | 393 | 74.0% | 34.9% |
| Stephen Decatur Elementary School Indianapolis | 496 | 70.8% | 18.9% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Franke Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Allen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #732 of 983 | #34 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #794 of 986 | #37 of 51 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #611 of 986 | #31 of 51 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 416 | #567 of 1,079 | #38 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #296 of 991 | #31 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.4% | #34 of 996 | #12 of 55 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.8% | #112 of 1,058 | #11 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #335 of 597 | #18 of 31 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
416
+29 (+7%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 16.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 416 | 29.8 | 13.9:1 | 73% (303) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 29.5 | 13.8:1 | 73% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 405 | 26 | 15.6:1 | 78% (317) |
| 2020-21 | 387 | 23 | 16.8:1 | 76% (295) |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 26.5 | 17.6:1 | 73% (338) |
| 2015-16 | 523 | 26 | 20.1:1 | 71% (369) |
| 2010-11 | 608 | 34 | 17.9:1 | 83% (505) |
| 2000-01 | 580 | 29 | 20.0:1 | 52% (299) |
| 1990-91 | 492 | 22 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franke Park Elementary School.
About Franke Park Elementary School
The public elementary school Franke Park Elementary School is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 416 students in pre-K through 5.
Franke Park Elementary School is one of 50 schools in Fort Wayne Community Schools, which enrolls 28,561 students in total.
The student body at Franke Park Elementary School has no majority group. White students lead at 39%. Enrollment also includes 28% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 13% Black, and 3% Asian. The school's White share is 32 points below the 71% share among Allen County residents. A diversity index of 72% means there is a 72% chance two randomly chosen students at Franke Park Elementary School are from different groups.
Staffing at Franke Park Elementary School comes to 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9:1. Elementary schools in Indiana have an average ratio of 15.5:1. On the income side, 73% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Allen County average 50%.
Among Indiana public elementary schools, Franke Park Elementary School outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Franke Park Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Indiana schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 28.8% and a predicted 24.0%.
Looking at the county, Allen County, the median household earns about $70,737 a year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Allen County has 92 public schools with about 55,262 students, including Franke Park Elementary School.
Allen Co Juvenile Center sits about 0.2 miles from Franke Park Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 24.8%, lower than Franke Park Elementary School's 28.8%.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 387 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 416 by 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 16.8:1 to 13.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Allen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
392,378
Census ACS
Median income
$70,737
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
92
55,262 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fort Wayne Community Schools
- Northrop High SchoolHigh · 2,145 students
- R Nelson Snider High SchoolHigh · 1,927 students
- South Side High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Wayne High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- North Side High SchoolHigh · 1,383 students
- Blackhawk Middle SchoolMiddle · 814 students
Other schools in Fort Wayne
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 2,623 students
- Homestead High SchoolHigh · 2,382 students
- Northrop High SchoolHigh · 2,145 students
- R Nelson Snider High SchoolHigh · 1,927 students
- South Side High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Wayne High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
Nearby schools
- Allen Co Juvenile Center0.2 mi · 24
- North Side High School1.0 mi · 1,383
- Francis M Price Elementary School1.0 mi · 405
- Bloomingdale Elementary School1.2 mi · 331
- Forest Park Elementary School1.8 mi · 558
- Smith Academy for Excellence1.9 mi · 64
Frequently asked questions
About Franke Park Elementary SchoolHow large is Franke Park Elementary School?
Franke Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 416 students in grades PK-05.
Is Franke Park Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Franke Park Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Franke Park Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Franke Park Elementary School is approximately 13.9:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Franke Park Elementary School?
Student demographics at Franke Park Elementary School are roughly 39% White, 28% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% Asian, 18% Two or more.
What district is Franke Park Elementary School in?
Franke Park Elementary School is part of Fort Wayne Community Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.