Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School

Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Hammond, Indiana, one of the schools within School City of Hammond, enrolling 622 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School sits 43% above that benchmark.

Within School City of Hammond, which oversees 15 schools and 10,997 students, Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School records that Black students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder is composed of 35% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lake County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 35.3%; this one comes in at 9.1%, -26.2 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lake County) logs that median household income runs about $71,493, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Lake County runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), of which Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Lew Wallace Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 59% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 622). Black enrollment moved from 66% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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