Oak View Elementary School

Northwest Allen County Schools; 13123 Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne; kindergarten through fifth grade; opened 1992, on an aggregator lead only

The Opening: The only year in print for Oak View's opening is 1992, and it comes from a directory aggregator, schooldistricts.us, with no named source behind it. The district's own pages and handbooks and the school's site are silent on the year, and no newspaper account of a building or a dedication was found. The lead stands in this entry as a lead. What the federal record offers instead is a beginning with a smudge in it. The enrollment series kept by the National Center for Education Statistics, republished by Public School Review, starts with a year labelled 1993 and counts five students against twenty one classroom teachers, a line whose ethnic percentages, eighty percent Asian and twenty percent Hispanic, cannot describe five children. The first full year on the page is 1994, with three hundred sixty eight students and twenty teachers. Whether 1993 was a phase in year, a partial program, or a plain data error, no source found explains, and this entry leaves it unexplained.

The Federal Record: From that shaky start the series runs clean. Enrollment climbed to five hundred ninety six students in 2006, and the recent counts sit lower: five hundred thirty in 2020, five hundred one in 2021, and four hundred forty two in 2025, with twenty nine teachers and a student teacher ratio of fifteen to one. The district's own membership figures, filed on the EMMA disclosure system for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, run five hundred thirty, five hundred three, four hundred forty five, four hundred fifty one and four hundred sixty five across the five school years from 2019/2020, and the filing's own footnote ties the sharpest drop to the year Aspen Meadow Elementary opened and students were redistributed among the district's elementaries. The school tests well above the state: overall testing in the top ten percent of Indiana schools, a rank of one hundred forty fourth of one thousand seven hundred forty three in 2023, mathematics proficiency of sixty nine percent, reading of fifty seven percent, and science between fifty and fifty four percent. Nine percent of its students were eligible for free lunch in 2025. SchoolDigger, working from the same federal data, ranks it forty eighth of one thousand five Indiana elementary schools and gives it five stars. A separate federal update carried by NeighborhoodScout counts four hundred sixty five students and thirty one teachers; the two tellings are printed with their sources and not averaged.

The School's Own Voice: The school's paper trail in the district's own hand is thin but real. Both recent Elementary Student Handbooks, for 2025-2026 and 2026-2027, list Oak View at 13123 Coldwater Road and report the building asbestos free in the district's required asbestos summary. The counselor's page is written by Susannah Fleming, who states a bachelor's degree in psychology and criminal justice from Indiana University and counseling degrees from the University of South Carolina, and keeps office hours from 7:30 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon. The parent teacher organization is a registered charity in its own right: its Form 990EZ, summarized in a charity directory, reports revenue of $127,523 in 2024, raised through carnivals, food sales, sports instruction leagues, holiday merchandise and the school yearbook. A construction project database lists a partial reroofing at the school, with no date captured in the listing. One ordinary thing is missing from all of it. No district page, handbook or school source consulted names a mascot for Oak View, and this entry claims none; the Panthers, Huskies, Owls and other animals attached to Oak View schools in Illinois, Minnesota, Tennessee and elsewhere belong to those schools, not to this one.

Today: The district's 2026 directory pairs Oak View with Principal Kyle Coffman, and the Indiana Association of School Principals names him the same way, as a mentor principal in its LEADing APs program. The school answers at 260-637-5117. Its students go on to Maple Creek Middle School and Carroll High School, and its attendance zone is computed at about three point three square miles of the district's eastern side. Two door numbers south, at 13121 Coldwater Road, stands Perry Hill Elementary, close enough that the pair share a road, a district and a handbook, while their documented histories could hardly differ more in depth.

Sources:

1. Northwest Allen County Schools, About Us directory, 2026: Oak View Elementary School paired with Principal Kyle Coffman (Kyle.Coffman@nacs.k12.in.us) and phone 260-637-5117.
2. Northwest Allen County Schools, Elementary Student Handbooks, 2025-2026 and 2026-2027: Oak View at 13123 Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne, with the same phone, and the building reported asbestos free in the district's asbestos summary.
3. Indiana Department of Education, nutrition eligibility listing, October 2007 (file dated February 5, 2008): Oak View Elementary School, corporation 0225, site 0094, with 449 total eligible students (420 paid, 26 free, 3 reduced), 6.4588 percent free and reduced.
4. National Center for Education Statistics, Oak View Elementary School (school ID 180825000016, as carried in the school's NeighborhoodScout and SchoolDigger profile addresses), as republished by Public School Review: the series of 1993 to 2025, with 5 students and 21 teachers in the anomalous first year, 368 students in 1994, 532 in 1998, 596 in 2006, 530 in 2020, 501 in 2021 and 442 students with 29 teachers in 2025; minority enrollment 21 percent; overall rank 144th of 1,743 Indiana schools in 2023, in the top 10 percent; mathematics proficiency 69 percent, reading 57 percent, science 50 to 54 percent; free lunch eligibility 9 percent in 2025; the attendance zone of about 3.3 square miles; enrollment down 11 percent over five years.
5. SchoolDigger, Oak View Elementary School profile: ranked 48th of 1,005 Indiana elementary schools, five stars, 442 students in 2024-25, students going on to Maple Creek Middle School and Carroll High School.
6. NeighborhoodScout, Oak View Elementary School profile (federal data updated June 2025): 465 students and 31 classroom teachers, printed as a separate telling and not merged with the series above.
7. Northwest Allen County Schools, continuing disclosure filing on EMMA, fiscal year ended December 31, 2023: Oak View average daily membership of 530, 503, 445, 451 and 465 for 2019/2020 to 2023/2024, with the footnote tying the 2021/2022 redistribution to Aspen Meadow Elementary's opening.
8. Indiana Association of School Principals, LEADing APs podcast listing, carried on ivy.fm: Kyle Coffman named as Principal at Oak View Elementary School and a program mentor.
9. OVE Counseling Department, the school's counseling page: counselor Susannah Fleming's stated degrees and office hours of 7:30am to 3:00pm.
10. Oakview Parent Teacher Organization of Fort Wayne, Form 990EZ as summarized by the givefreely charity directory: a registered 501(c)(3), EIN 351889383, 2024 revenue of $127,523, from carnivals, food sales, sports instruction leagues, holiday merchandise and the yearbook.
11. ConstructConnect, project listing: a partial reroofing project at Oak View Elementary School, Fort Wayne; no date was captured from the listing, and none is claimed.
12. schooldistricts.us, as recorded in this history's master inventory of Fort Wayne schools: the 1992 opening field, carried as a lead only, with no named source behind it.