Eagle Park Community School

Eagle Park Community School is a K-12 campus of one-room-style scale in Crown Point, Indiana, one of the schools within NW Indiana Special Education Coop, hosting 87 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 84% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 531 students.

NW Indiana Special Education Coop is the operating authority for Eagle Park Community School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eagle Park Community School reports that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 24% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 24.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at Eagle Park Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lake County (around 47%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lake County put 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. Eagle Park Community School is one of 121 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students).

Nearest neighbor: Timothy Ball Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eagle Park Community School.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 111 students in 2018 compared to 87 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 38% to 9% over that span.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.