Northcrest Elementary School

Northcrest Elementary School, a medium-sized K-5 school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, one of the schools within Fort Wayne Community Schools, enrolls 536 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Northcrest Elementary School sits 23% larger than that benchmark.

Northcrest Elementary School is one of 50 schools operated by Fort Wayne Community Schools, a district that serves 28,561 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Northcrest Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Black at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 25% Hispanic, 24% White, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Northcrest Elementary School shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northcrest Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Allen County) shows that median household income runs about $70,737, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Northcrest Elementary School is one of 92 public schools in Allen County (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students).

Nearest neighbor: Northwood Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northcrest Elementary School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 29.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Northcrest Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 18% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 536). Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 20% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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