Kenwood Elementary School

Kenwood Elementary School is one of the tight-knit elementary schools in Hammond, Indiana, one of the schools within School City of Hammond, with 267 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 39% below typical.

Within School City of Hammond, which oversees 15 schools and 10,997 students, Kenwood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Kenwood Elementary School records that Black students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 12% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,493 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Lake County runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), of which Kenwood Elementary School is one.

Lew Wallace Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 6-year window. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Kenwood Elementary School has fell 10%, going from 298 students in 2018 to 267 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.