Whitney M Young Early Childhood

Whitney M Young Early Childhood is a small elementary school with an address in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The school offers pre-K through kindergarten and enrolls 218 students. That puts enrollment 50% below the 436-student average for elementary schools in Indiana.

Fort Wayne Community Schools, which runs Whitney M Young Early Childhood, has 50 schools and 28,561 students.

The biggest share of students at Whitney M Young Early Childhood, 32%, is White. Other reported shares: 31% Black, 27% Hispanic, and 11% multiracial. That compares with about 71% White among all Allen County residents. The diversity index for Whitney M Young Early Childhood is 72%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Its ratio of 11.5:1 is based on 19 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Indiana average 15.5:1, 4.1 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 46%.

In Allen County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $70,737 a year, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 92 public schools in the county, enrolling about 55,262, Whitney M Young Early Childhood among them.

Weisser Park Elementary School sits about 0.2 miles from Whitney M Young Early Childhood. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment figures show a rise of 20 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The number of students per teacher dropped from 24.8 to 11.5 over 4 years.

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