Jeff H Towles Intermediate School

Set in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Jeff H Towles Intermediate School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, run under Fort Wayne Community Schools. It works with 600 students across grades 1 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Jeff H Towles Intermediate School sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

Jeff H Towles Intermediate School is one of 50 schools operated by Fort Wayne Community Schools, a district that instructs 28,561 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Jeff H Towles Intermediate School shows that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% Black, 20% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Jeff H Towles Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Allen County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Jeff H Towles Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.1%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Allen County put the typical household earns roughly $70,737 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Jeff H Towles Intermediate School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Levan R Scott Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jeff H Towles Intermediate School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jeff H Towles Intermediate School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 22.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 597 students in 2018 compared to 600 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment grew from 23% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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