Gary Middle School

Gary Middle School is one of the intimate middle schools in Gary, Indiana, overseen by Gary Community School Corp, with 365 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 39% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Gary Community School Corp comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,383 students; Gary Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Gary Middle School reports that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Gary Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lake County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gary Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.3%; Gary Middle School posts 8.4%, -22.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lake County) records that median household income runs about $71,493, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Gary Middle School is one of 121 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students).

Charter School of the Dunes is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gary Middle School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 19.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.