Franke Park Elementary School

Located at 828 Mildred Ave, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Franke Park Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school that teaches 416 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Fort Wayne Community Schools.

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

On the student-mix side, Franke Park Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 28% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 13% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Allen County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Franke Park Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.0%; this one delivers 28.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Allen County shows median household income runs about $70,737, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Allen County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), Franke Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Allen Co Juvenile Center, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Franke Park Elementary School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 24.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Franke Park Elementary School has contracted 11%, going from 466 students in 2018 to 416 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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