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Levan R Scott Academy
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 Levan R Scott Academy
Set in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Levan R Scott Academy is a mid-tier K-5 school, part of Fort Wayne Community Schools. It educates 419 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Fort Wayne Community Schools runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 28,561 students. Levan R Scott Academy is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Levan R Scott Academy lists that 32% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 30% Black, 27% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% White. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.
On the income-and-resources front, Levan R Scott Academy logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Levan R Scott Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Allen County's rate of about 50%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Levan R Scott Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.2%; this one delivers 11.6%.
Across the wider county, census data for Allen County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,737 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Allen County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), Levan R Scott Academy is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Jeff H Towles Intermediate School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Levan R Scott Academy comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.1%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Levan R Scott Academy has grew 9%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 48% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.
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