Ernest R Elliott Elementary School

Ernest R Elliott Elementary School is an average-sized primary school in Munster, Indiana, run under School Town of Munster. The school works with 463 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 5 schools in School Town of Munster (4,101 students total), Ernest R Elliott Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Ernest R Elliott Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Lake County's rate of about 47%.

After controlling for student poverty, Ernest R Elliott Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +4.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lake County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,493 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lake County runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), of which Ernest R Elliott Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wilbur Wright Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. 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), Ernest R Elliott Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 50.4%.

Ernest R Elliott Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 438 students in 2018 compared to 463 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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