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Enrollment
622
Elementary
DISTRICT 580 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND·NCES 180432000744
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School
1001 165th St, Hammond, IN 46324 · (219) 933-2477 · Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL622 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Indiana public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
354 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (92).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
13.3%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
7.2%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
9.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.3%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School's state test result (9.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School this school | 622 | 56.9% | 9.1% |
| Eastbrook Elementary School Indianapolis | 575 | 56.3% | 16.9% |
| Frank O'Bannon Elementary School Hammond | 557 | 56.4% | 13.6% |
| Central Elementary School Indianapolis | 634 | 53.6% | 20.2% |
| College Park Elementary School Indianapolis | 518 | 56.2% | 19.6% |
| Westlake Elementary School Indianapolis | 736 | 62.6% | 18.0% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.1% | #961 of 983 | #57 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.2% | #973 of 986 | #59 of 61 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.3% | #928 of 986 | #52 of 61 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 622 | #145 of 1,079 | #11 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #666 of 991 | #30 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.5% | #372 of 996 | #35 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.9% | #436 of 1,058 | #31 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +59.5% | #19 of 353 | #2 of 26 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
622
+37 (+6%) vs 2020
+71% since 1990-91, when it was 363
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 17.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 622 | 38.8 | 16.0:1 | 57% (354) |
| 2023-24 | 626 | 39.3 | 15.9:1 | 69% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 669 | 34 | 19.7:1 | 77% (514) |
| 2020-21 | 585 | 33 | 17.7:1 | 89% (521) |
| 2017-18 | 390 | 18.1 | 21.6:1 | 81% (317) |
| 2015-16 | 444 | 22 | 20.2:1 | 86% (380) |
| 2010-11 | 514 | 25 | 20.6:1 | 89% (460) |
| 2000-01 | 501 | 29 | 17.3:1 | 90% (451) |
| 1990-91 | 363 | 23 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School.
About Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Hammond, Indiana. The school reports 622 students in pre-K through 6. The typical figure for elementary schools in Indiana is about 436 students.
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is run by School City of Hammond, whose 15 schools enroll 10,997 students.
Black students are the majority at Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School, with 57% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 35% Hispanic, 4% White, and 4% multiracial. Among all residents of Lake County, the Black share is about 23%. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 38.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School and a ratio of 16.0:1. That matches the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana fairly closely. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 57% of enrollment. That rate is above the 47% average among public schools in Lake County.
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is graded F by allk12, scoring above 1% of Indiana public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After accounting for student poverty, Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 9.1% is 26.2 points below the 35.3% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Lake County show that the median household income is $71,493, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is one of 121 public schools in the county.
The school nearest to Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is Lew Wallace Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is 6th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has grown by 37 students since 2020-21, to 622. By 2024-25, the school had 16.0 students per teacher, compared with 17.7 in 2020-21.
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Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
500,379
Census ACS
Median income
$71,493
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
121
74,661 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in School City of Hammond
- Hammond Central High SchoolHigh · 1,814 students
- Morton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,446 students
- Warren G Harding Elementary SchoolElementary · 755 students
- Washington Irving Elementary SchElementary · 754 students
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 705 students
- Henry W Eggers Middle SchoolMiddle · 693 students
Other schools in Hammond
- Hammond Central High SchoolHigh · 1,814 students
- Morton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,446 students
- Warren G Harding Elementary SchoolElementary · 755 students
- Washington Irving Elementary SchElementary · 754 students
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 705 students
- Henry W Eggers Middle SchoolMiddle · 693 students
Nearby schools
- Lew Wallace Elementary School0.3 mi · 450
- Hammond Central High School0.6 mi · 1,814
- Thomas A Edison Elementary School0.8 mi · 705
- Kenwood Elementary School0.9 mi · 267
- Henry W Eggers Middle School0.9 mi · 693
- Frank O'Bannon Elementary School1.1 mi · 557
Frequently asked questions
About Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School?
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School enrolls approximately 622 students in grades PK-06.
Is Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School have?
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School?
Student demographics at Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School are roughly 4% White, 35% Hispanic, 57% Black, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School?
Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School is overseen by School City of Hammond in Lake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.