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Leo Junior/Senior High School
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Leo Junior/Senior High School
As a sizable senior high in Leo, Indiana, Leo Junior/Senior High School teaches 1,328 students from grades 7 through 12, part of East Allen County Schools. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Leo Junior/Senior High School sits 63% bigger than that benchmark.
East Allen County Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 10,136 students. Leo Junior/Senior High School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Leo Junior/Senior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Leo Junior/Senior High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Leo Junior/Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.2%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -9.8 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Allen County) reports that 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%. Across Allen County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), Leo Junior/Senior High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Leo Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Leo Junior/Senior High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Leo Junior/Senior High School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 1,355 (now 1,328). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.
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Allen County at a glance
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