Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch

Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch is one of the small elementary campuss in Fort Wayne, Indiana, overseen by Fort Wayne Community Schools, with 266 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch sits 39% below that benchmark.

Across the 50 schools in Fort Wayne Community Schools (28,561 students total), Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 10% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the resource side, Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 52% of students at Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Allen County shows median household income runs about $70,737, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch is one of 92 public schools in Allen County (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students).

The closest other public school is Saint Joseph Central School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.9%.

Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 302 students in 2018 compared to 266 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 79% to 63%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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