Homestead High School

Fort Wayne, Indiana, is home to Homestead High School, a high-enrollment high school. The school had 2,382 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (high schools in Indiana) has about 816 students.

MSD Southwest Allen County Schls has 10 schools; together they serve 7,502 students.

At 76%, White students outnumber all other groups at Homestead High School combined. The school is also 7% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Homestead High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 40%.

The school employs the equivalent of 136 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 17.5:1. Among high schools in Indiana, the typical ratio is 16.6:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 23%. That is lower than the 50% average for public schools in Allen County.

Within Allen County, median household income is about $70,737, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Federal data list 92 public schools in Allen County, with a combined enrollment of about 55,262.

The school nearest to Homestead High School is Summit Middle School, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Homestead High School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The student count in 2024-25 was 2,382, 5% below the 2,503 of 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 19.7:1 to 17.5:1.

The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Homestead High School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.