Glenwood Park Elementary School

Glenwood Park Elementary School operates as a medium-sized primary school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, part of Fort Wayne Community Schools. Current enrollment sits at 532 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

Fort Wayne Community Schools comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 28,561 students; Glenwood Park Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Glenwood Park Elementary School logs that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Black, 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 13% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Glenwood Park Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Glenwood Park Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.2%; this one delivers 35.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Allen County indicate 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), Glenwood Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: R Nelson Snider High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glenwood Park Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Glenwood Park Elementary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glenwood Park Elementary School has ticked down 14%, going from 622 students in 2018 to 532 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 56% to 38%. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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