Wallace Aylesworth Elementary

Wallace Aylesworth Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Portage, Indiana, overseen by Portage Township Schools, with 401 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Portage Township Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,519 students. Wallace Aylesworth Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Wallace Aylesworth Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 25% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Porter County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Wallace Aylesworth Elementary logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Porter County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Wallace Aylesworth Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.1%; this one comes in at 25.1%, -16.0 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Porter County shows median household income runs about $87,972, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Porter County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students), of which Wallace Aylesworth Elementary is one.

Willowcreek Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wallace Aylesworth Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 472 students in 2018 compared to 401 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 57% to 45%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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