Oak View Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Oak View Elementary School instructs 442 students from grades K through 5, run under Northwest Allen County Schools.

Oak View Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by Northwest Allen County Schools, a district that hosts 8,409 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Oak View Elementary School lists that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 8% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Oak View Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Allen County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oak View Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.0%, the actual is 70.1%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the surrounding 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%. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Oak View Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Perry Hill Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oak View Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak View Elementary School has edged down 7%, going from 475 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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