Waynedale Elementary School

Waynedale Elementary School, an average-sized elementary campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana, overseen by Fort Wayne Community Schools, works with 383 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Fort Wayne Community Schools runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 28,561 students. Waynedale Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Waynedale Elementary School logs that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 25% Black, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Waynedale Elementary School shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Waynedale Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Waynedale Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 28.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Allen County) reports that median household earnings sit near $70,737, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Waynedale Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Maplewood Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Waynedale Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Waynedale Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 466 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share contracted from 21% to 5%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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