Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 398 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARY COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP·NCES 180387000613
Banneker Elementary at Marquette
6401 Hemlock Ave, Gary, IN 46403 · (219) 321-8545 · Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Indiana public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
18.0:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
190 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · 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
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ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
14.6%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
12.7%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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
12.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.6%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 30% 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 Banneker Elementary at Marquette
Banneker Elementary at Marquette's state test result (12.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banneker Elementary at Marquette this school | 293 | 64.8% | 12.5% |
| Beveridge Elementary School Gary | 374 | 66.6% | 4.8% |
| Daniel Hale Williams Elem Sch Gary | 450 | 69.8% | 8.3% |
| Phalen Leadership Academy - IN Inc Indianapolis | 247 | 73.7% | 14.2% |
| Edgar L Miller Elementary School Merrillville | 330 | 61.2% | 30.2% |
| Frankie Woods McCullough Academy Gary | 472 | 57.4% | 7.1% |
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 Banneker Elementary at Marquette ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.5% | #930 of 983 | #51 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.7% | #934 of 986 | #49 of 61 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #907 of 986 | #46 of 61 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #854 of 1,079 | #60 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #884 of 991 | #51 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.4% | #899 of 996 | #69 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.8% | #250 of 1,058 | #18 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.2% | #30 of 597 | #5 of 39 |
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
293
-103 (-26%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 438
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 293 | 16.3 | 18.0:1 | 65% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 276 | 17.5 | 15.8:1 | 70% (193) |
| 2022-23 | 299 | 18 | 16.6:1 | 87% (261) |
| 2020-21 | 396 | 23 | 17.2:1 | 100% (396) |
| 2017-18 | 474 | 19.5 | 24.4:1 | 68% (321) |
| 2015-16 | 485 | 21 | 23.1:1 | 65% (313) |
| 2010-11 | 595 | 33 | 18.0:1 | 56% (335) |
| 2000-01 | 417 | 18 | 23.2:1 | 28% (118) |
| 1990-91 | 438 | 22 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Banneker Elementary at Marquette.
About Banneker Elementary at Marquette
Banneker Elementary at Marquette is a small elementary school in Indiana, with an address in Gary. It teaches 293 students in kindergarten through 5. That is 33% below the average of about 436 students for elementary schools in Indiana.
Banneker Elementary at Marquette is one of the 10 schools that make up Gary Community School Corp (4,383 students in total).
Black students are 94% of those enrolled at Banneker Elementary at Marquette. Next come 2% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. That compares with about 23% Black among all Lake County residents. A diversity index of 12% means there is a 12% chance two randomly chosen students at Banneker Elementary at Marquette are from different groups.
There are about 18.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Banneker Elementary at Marquette, which has 16.3. Elementary schools in Indiana have an average ratio of 15.5:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 65%. On average, public schools in Lake County report 47%.
Among Indiana public elementary schools, Banneker Elementary at Marquette outscored 3%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Banneker Elementary at Marquette is in the bottom 10% of Indiana schools: 12.5% actual against 29.6% predicted.
In Lake County, the median household earns about $71,493 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Across Lake County, 121 public schools serve about 74,661 students.
Gary Middle School, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Banneker Elementary at Marquette ranks 5th of 8 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 293, down from 396 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 Gary Community School Corp
- West Side Leadership AcademyHigh · 1,232 students
- Glen Park Acad for Excel in LrnElementary · 566 students
- Frankie Woods McCullough AcademyElementary · 472 students
- Daniel Hale Williams Elem SchElementary · 450 students
- Beveridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 374 students
- Gary Middle SchoolMiddle · 365 students
Other schools in Gary
- West Side Leadership AcademyHigh · 1,232 students
- 21st Century Charter Sch of GaryCombined · 1,180 students
- Gary Lighthouse Charter SchoolCombined · 1,138 students
- Charter School of the DunesElementary · 836 students
- Thea Bowman Leadership AcademyCombined · 773 students
- Aspire Charter AcademyElementary · 684 students
Nearby schools
- Gary Middle School0.9 mi · 365
- Charter School of the Dunes1.3 mi · 836
- Thomas A Edison Jr-Sr HS2.6 mi · 595
- Virgil I Bailey Elementary School2.7 mi · 235
- Mary M Bethune Early Child Dev Ctr3.3 mi · 231
- Alexander Hamilton Elementary Sch3.3 mi · 200
Frequently asked questions
About Banneker Elementary at MarquetteHow many students attend Banneker Elementary at Marquette?
Banneker Elementary at Marquette enrolls approximately 293 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Banneker Elementary at Marquette serve?
Banneker Elementary at Marquette serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Banneker Elementary at Marquette have?
Banneker Elementary at Marquette employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Banneker Elementary at Marquette?
At Banneker Elementary at Marquette, the student body is approximately 2% White, 2% Hispanic, 94% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Banneker Elementary at Marquette?
Banneker Elementary at Marquette is overseen by Gary Community School Corp in Lake County.
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