Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch

Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in East Chicago, Indiana, operated by School City of East Chicago. Current enrollment sits at 400 students spanning grades K through 6.

School City of East Chicago runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,225 students. Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch reports that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 28% Black. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible 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.

With demographic context factored in, Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.2%, the actual is 17.7%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,493 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Lake County runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), of which Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch is one.

Carrie Gosch PK Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 14.8%.

Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch has contracted 23%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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