Kekionga Middle School

As a mid-sized middle-grades school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Kekionga Middle School teaches 527 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Fort Wayne Community Schools.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kekionga Middle School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Black, 19% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

In terms of school funding signals, Kekionga Middle School lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Allen County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kekionga Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.2%, the actual is 11.8%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Allen County shows median household earnings sit near $70,737, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Kekionga Middle School is one of 92 public schools in Allen County (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students).

The closest other public school is Indian Village Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Kekionga Middle School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Kekionga Middle School's enrollment has ticked up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 505 (now 527). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 24% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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