The top reported proficiency rate is 53% in Science. The lowest is 48% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Perry Hill Elementary School
Perry Hill Elementary, part of Northwest Allen County Schools, serves kindergarten through fifth grade in a regular public school setting. About a quarter of its families qualify for the federal lunch program. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of students who are two or more races, Hispanic, Asian, and Black, each in the single digits or low single digits. Enrollment across the grade levels is relatively even, with the largest groups in grades four and five.
State testing results come from Indiana's ILEARN assessments, and Perry Hill's students show proficiency above the midpoint among elementary schools in Allen County. In math, about half of students tested scored at the proficient level or above. In English language arts, a slightly smaller share crossed that threshold. Across science and social studies, where testing covers a narrower set of grade levels, a similar pattern holds, with just over half testing as proficient. The school reported full participation in the math and ELA tests, a detail a parent may want to confirm for the other subjects given that a participation rate was not reported there.
The school sits inside Northwest Allen County Schools, a district that recently opened Willow Creek Middle School, expanding middle school capacity for families. This is a structural addition that signals some growth in the district's enrollment pipeline.
Fort Wayne is Indiana's second-largest city and the economic and cultural center of the region. It has a mixed industrial and residential character, with a historic manufacturing base and a more recent downtown revitalization that includes a riverfront park, a minor league ballpark, and a redeveloped former General Electric campus. The city is car-dependent outside its downtown core. Housing in the zip code that serves Perry Hill reflects values well above the state benchmark, and monthly mortgage costs and rents are above what the national median household income supports, which gives a parent a sense of the local market's price level. The area has seen a noticeable uptick in rent growth.
The school does not report data on special education or English learner populations in the available information. A parent with a child who has an Individualized Education Program or is learning English may want to ask the school directly about how those services are staffed and integrated. Discipline records and chronic absenteeism data were not available in this profile, so a parent looking into school climate or attendance patterns would need to request that information from the district. State testing covers grades three through five, which includes all the upper grades at Perry Hill, so the results provide a clear snapshot of how students at those levels are performing overall. There is no graduation rate to report because the school does not serve high school grades.
For a family, Perry Hill represents a school where academic performance is broadly in the upper range of what is seen across the county's elementary schools. The community around it is a suburban stretch of a larger city, with home prices that are elevated relative to the state average. The district has been adding capacity at the middle school level, which may be relevant for families planning ahead. A parent looking for more detail on student support services or on how the school serves specific groups would need to go beyond this profile.
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