Summary:
Zip code 46807 in Fort Wayne, Indiana is served by three public elementary schools — Harrison Hill Elementary School, Fairfield Elementary School, and South Wayne Elementary School. All three serve PK–5 students and belong to Fort Wayne Community Schools, which ranks 274 of 374 districts at the 27th percentile with 1 star. Combined enrollment is 1,433 students, ranging from 340 at South Wayne to 612 at Harrison Hill. Every school in this group currently holds 1 star and ranks in the lower percentiles of Indiana schools.
Harrison Hill Elementary School is the strongest of the three. It has the best 2025–2026 rank (749 of 1,015, 26th percentile), the best attendance (15.5% chronically absent, below the district's 20.2% and the state's 16.7%), and the highest all-grade ELA (28.96%), Math (33.98%), and Science (25.53%) results. It is the only school here above the district in an all-grade subject, Math. South Wayne Elementary School faces the highest need: 80.59% free/reduced lunch and 28.5% chronic absenteeism, alongside the lowest all-grade Math (14.69%). Fairfield Elementary School has the lowest 2025–2026 percentile (11th) and the lowest all-grade ELA (19.46%).
Two patterns stand out for families. First, attendance tracks with results: the school with the lowest absenteeism has the strongest scores, and the school with the highest absenteeism has the weakest math. Second, higher spending and smaller classes do not automatically translate into higher proficiency — South Wayne spends the most ($16,142 per student) with the lowest student-teacher ratio (10.6), yet posts the lowest all-grade Math. Performance also varies sharply by grade and subject; Harrison Hill's 3rd grade Math is 49.35%, while its 5th grade Math is 17.05%. Encouragingly, all three schools improved their rank percentile from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026, with Harrison Hill and South Wayne each gaining 7 points.
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