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2019 – present
Founded: Fort Wayne's first full-time Islamic school. Abdulwahab Abashaar of Indianapolis and Fort Wayne Muslim community leaders decided in 2018 to found it as the city's Muslim population grew, and in May 2019 the school petitioned the Indiana State Board of Education for freeway accreditation, planning to open for 2019–20 at 4508 Parnell Ave with more than 50 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade and to grow toward a full K–12 school, teaching the state curriculum together with Islam, Arabic and Quran.
Note: Supplementary Islamic instruction in the city is older than the school: the Universal Education Foundation of Fort Wayne has run an Islamic Sunday School for ages 5–17 at 2223 Goshen Rd. No full-time Jewish day school appears in the record — Fort Wayne's Jewish education has been the supplementary religious schools of its congregations, Achduth Vesholom and, historically, B'nai Jacob (merged into Achduth Vesholom in 2019).
Sources:
- Indiana State Board of Education, memorandum on International Leadership School freeway accreditation (May 29, 2019).
- Universal Education Foundation of Fort Wayne (ueffw.com) — Islamic Sunday School.