Brummitt Elementary School

Brummitt Elementary School is a low-enrollment primary school in Chesterton, Indiana, run under Duneland School Corporation. The school enrolls 363 students in grades K through 4.

Across the 11 schools in Duneland School Corporation (5,732 students total), Brummitt Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Brummitt Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 78%; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Brummitt Elementary School records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at Brummitt Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brummitt Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 67.8%, a residual of +12.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Porter County) shows that median household earnings sit near $87,972, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Porter County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students), Brummitt Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Northwest Indiana Online School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brummitt Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Brummitt Elementary School's enrollment has rose 10% since 2018, when it stood at 329 (now 363). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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