Lindley Elementary School

Lindley Elementary School, a close-knit elementary campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana, one of the schools within Fort Wayne Community Schools, instructs 330 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Lindley Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 29% Black, 27% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Lindley Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Allen County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Lindley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the broader community, Allen County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,737, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Allen County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), Lindley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Portage Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lindley Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lindley Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 19.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Lindley Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 374 (now 330). Over the same period, the Black share grew from 24% to 29%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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