Wallace Elementary School

Wallace Elementary School is a K-5 school of cozy scale in Kokomo, Indiana, overseen by Kokomo School Corporation, enrolling 360 students in grades K through 5.

Wallace Elementary School is one of 13 schools operated by Kokomo School Corporation, a district that teaches 5,197 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wallace Elementary School shows that 58% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 22% multiracial, 13% Black, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Howard County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Wallace Elementary School reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wallace Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Howard County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,027, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wallace Elementary School is one of 29 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 12,786 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lafayette Park Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wallace Elementary School at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 28.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wallace Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 355 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 67% to 58% over that span.

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