Keystone School of Early Learning

Fort Wayne; a directory record only, with no founding year documented (keyed to the year of this history's record, not to a founding)

The record: This entry is written under the thin record exception, and says so: the school it names is carried in this history's inventory of current Fort Wayne schools on directory evidence alone, and the article is honestly shorter than the section's measure. The evidence is GreatSchools data as republished by real estate and apartment listing sites. The school pages for two southwest Fort Wayne schools, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School and Summit Middle School, carry in their nearby schools data a listing that reads: "Keystone Schools SW, private School, Grades PK, K-1, GreatSchools Rating: This school is not rated." A sitemap of Indiana schools near apartments lists three forms of the name as separate entries: "Keystone School of Early Learning," "Keystone Schools" and "Keystone Schools SW." The inventory also records directory listings showing grades preschool to five against the preschool to first grade of the GreatSchools data, and both spans are carried here as the directories give them.

The federal record: A later check, made for the closing wave of this inventory, found the record this entry lacked. City-Data's Fort Wayne schools table, which reproduces the National Center for Education Statistics private school data, lists "Keystone Sw School, 5421 Homestead Rd, Fort Wayne, 22 students, PK-1." The school therefore has an address and a federal enrollment after all: 5421 Homestead Road in southwest Fort Wayne, counted with twenty two students in prekindergarten through grade one. One directory fact rides unexplained beside it: 5421 Homestead Road is also the Internal Revenue Service listed address of St Andrew Evangelical Lutheran Church. Whether the school was housed at or beside that church, or the directory row is stale, no source reached says, and this entry records the coincidence as a fact of the directories and nothing more.

What is not documented: No website for the school was found, and no telephone number, operator or founding date appears in any source reached for this entry. The name was not found, under any of its three directory forms, in the state's licensed child care center listing read for the wave that first wrote this entry. Whether the school still operates cannot be confirmed from the sources reached, and this entry does not claim otherwise; it stands so that a school carried in the city's directories is not lost from the record, on the pattern of this section's other thin entries.

The Laverne namesake: Fort Wayne held a second Keystone School, and the two are kept apart here. The school at 1800 Laverne Avenue, on the northeast side, was operated by Keystone School Inc, whose Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt status dates to May 2004; Cause IQ's directory dates that school's founding to 2004. It is closed, and its end is documented: Keller Development converted the former school into Ryker Reserve, a 9.4 million dollar affordable senior housing complex, whose grand opening was reported in July 2013. No source reached connects the Laverne school's operator to the southwest school of this entry, and this entry does not assert one; the namesake is recorded so the two records are never merged.

Names kept apart: Nothing in this entry belongs to the Keystone schools of other places, the Keystone School of San Antonio, the National Heritage Academies charter school at Belleville, Michigan, the Keystone Montessori School of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, or Keystone College in Pennsylvania, nor to Canterbury School, the southwest Fort Wayne private school that has its own entry in this history; those schools' records surfaced in the searches for this one and are refused here by name. If a school source for Keystone of Fort Wayne surfaces, a page of its own, an operator, a founding year, this entry should be rewritten from it, and the key replaced by a documented year.

Sources:

1. Moosed History, Schools master inventory: Keystone School of Early Learning (Keystone Schools), private early childhood and early elementary, southwest Fort Wayne, grades preschool to 1 in GreatSchools data, with some directory listings showing preschool to 5
2. Movoto, school pages for Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School and Summit Middle School, Fort Wayne: nearby schools data sourced to GreatSchools, "Keystone Schools SW, private School, Grades PK, K-1"
3. RentCafe, Indiana schools sitemap: the listings "Keystone School of Early Learning," "Keystone Schools" and "Keystone Schools SW"
4. Indiana licensed child care center listing, run date July 25, 2025: the name not found under any of its directory forms
5. City-Data, Fort Wayne schools table, reproducing National Center for Education Statistics private school data: "Keystone Sw School, 5421 Homestead Rd, Fort Wayne, 22 students, PK-1"; and the Laverne Avenue Keystone School rows in several survey years
6. Cause IQ, Keystone School Inc (EIN 35-2210931): tax-exempt status May 2004; its Fort Wayne Keystone School entry dates the founding to 2004; and St Andrew Evangelical Lutheran Church (EIN 35-1392921), 5421 Homestead Road
7. Senior Housing News, July 17, 2013, carrying Journal Gazette reporting: Keller Development's conversion of the former Keystone School, Laverne Avenue, into the Ryker Reserve senior housing complex, 9.4 million dollars, grand opening that week