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Leo Elementary School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Leo Elementary School
Leo Elementary School, a mid-tier intermediate school in Leo, Indiana, part of East Allen County Schools, serves 653 students, covering grades 4 through 6.
Leo Elementary School is one of 15 schools operated by East Allen County Schools, a district that teaches 10,136 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Leo Elementary School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Allen County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Leo Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.0%; this one delivers 54.3%.
Zooming out to the county, Allen County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,737 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Leo Elementary School is one.
Leo Junior/Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Leo Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.
Leo Elementary School operates from a low-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Leo Elementary School's enrollment has rose 14% since 2018, when it stood at 572 (now 653).
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