Kenwood Elementary School

Kenwood Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school located in Hammond, Indiana. Students in pre-K through 6 attend the school, which enrolls 267 students. For comparison, elementary schools in Indiana average about 436 students.

Federal data list 15 schools in School City of Hammond, with 10,997 students enrolled.

Black students account for 58% of enrollment at Kenwood Elementary School. Other groups make up 27% Hispanic, 12% White, and 3% multiracial. Lake County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Kenwood Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 58%.

Dividing enrollment by its 22.6 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 13.9:1. Among elementary schools in Indiana, the typical ratio is 15.5:1. Eligible students account for 48% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. That is close to the 47% average for public schools in Lake County.

Across Lake County, median household income is about $71,493, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The public schools of Lake County number 121 and enroll about 74,661.

Lew Wallace Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.7 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

From 2017-18 to 2023-24, Kenwood Elementary School went from 298 students to 267. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.7:1 to 11.8:1.

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