Beveridge Elementary School

As a moderately sized K-5 school in Gary, Indiana, Beveridge Elementary School enrolls 374 students from grades K through 5, run under Gary Community School Corp.

Gary Community School Corp runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,383 students. Beveridge Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Beveridge Elementary School reports that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Beveridge Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Beveridge Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 28.4%; this one comes in at 4.8%, -23.6 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lake County) records that median household income runs about $71,493, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Beveridge Elementary School is one of 121 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students).

Nearest neighbor: Frankie Woods McCullough Academy, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Beveridge Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beveridge Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 13.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 39%: 614 students in 2018 compared to 374 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 95% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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