Banneker Elementary at Marquette

Set in Gary, Indiana, Banneker Elementary at Marquette is a modestly sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Gary Community School Corp. It works with 293 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Across the 10 schools in Gary Community School Corp (4,383 students total), Banneker Elementary at Marquette accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Banneker Elementary at Marquette lists that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Banneker Elementary at Marquette higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Banneker Elementary at Marquette qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Banneker Elementary at Marquette falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.6%; this one comes in at 12.5%, -17.2 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lake County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,493 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Banneker Elementary at Marquette is one of 121 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gary Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Banneker Elementary at Marquette comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 14.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Banneker Elementary at Marquette's enrollment has edged down 38% since 2018, when it stood at 474 (now 293). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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