Maple Creek Middle School

Maple Creek Middle School is a 6-8 campus of expansive scale in Fort Wayne, Indiana, run under Northwest Allen County Schools, caters to 1,024 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Maple Creek Middle School sits 72% larger than that benchmark.

Within Northwest Allen County Schools, which oversees 11 schools and 8,409 students, Maple Creek Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maple Creek Middle School reports that 78% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Maple Creek Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

With demographic context factored in, Maple Creek Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.1%; this one delivers 51.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Allen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,737 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Maple Creek Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Perry Hill Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maple Creek Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maple Creek Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maple Creek Middle School has expanded 22%, going from 841 students in 2018 to 1,024 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 85% to 78%.

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