Summary:
ZIP code 46805 in Fort Wayne, Indiana contains exactly one high school: North Side High School, a grades 9–12 campus with 1,383 students that is part of Fort Wayne Community Schools. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no local school-to-school comparisons to make — the meaningful benchmarks are the district and the state. The district itself is rated 1 star and ranks 274th of 374 Indiana districts, in the 27th percentile.
North Side's most striking numbers are its economic need and its absenteeism. About 67.39% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and 34.8% were chronically absent — far above the district's 20.2% and the state's 16.7%. Test proficiency is low across every subject. In 2025–2026, 8.51% of 11th graders met SAT Math standards (district 13.56%, state 25.6%), 31.91% met SAT Reading/Writing standards (state 51.9%), and 20.18% passed ILEARN Biology (district 30.69%). Math appears to be worsening — down from 11.56% the year before while both the district and state edged up — and the Biology gap to the district widened from about 5.7 percentage points to about 10.5 points. Reading/Writing slipped slightly but remains roughly 20 points below the state.
Graduation is the relative bright spot: 87.6% in 2024–2025, only 1.7 points below the district and 2.1 points below the state, which stands out given the low proficiency and high absenteeism — though graduation rates and test scores measure different things. Statewide ranking has been consistently low: 1 star and bottom-quartile for three straight years, placing 342nd of 415 schools at the 18th percentile in 2025–2026. Per-student spending was $11,899 (2023–2024) and the student-teacher ratio 17.9 (2024–2025), but without district or state comparisons for those inputs it is not possible to say whether resources are above or below typical levels.
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