Whitney M Young Early Childhood

Whitney M Young Early Childhood is a primary school of modestly sized scale in Fort Wayne, Indiana, overseen by Fort Wayne Community Schools, works with 218 students in grades pre-K through K. That puts it 50% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Fort Wayne Community Schools comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 28,561 students; Whitney M Young Early Childhood is among them.

On demographics, Whitney M Young Early Childhood records that 32% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 31% Black, 27% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Whitney M Young Early Childhood reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Whitney M Young Early Childhood qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, census data for Allen County shows median household earnings sit near $70,737, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Whitney M Young Early Childhood is one.

Weisser Park Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Whitney M Young Early Childhood operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 245 students in 2018 compared to 218 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 42% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 30.6:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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