Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School

Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School operates as a close-knit middle-grades school in Gary, Indiana, part of Lake Ridge New Tech Schools. Current enrollment sits at 447 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 594.

Lake Ridge New Tech Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,550 students. Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School logs that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% White, 27% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Lake County's rate of about 47%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 6.5%, the actual is 12.4%, a residual of +5.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lake County indicate median household income runs about $71,493, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Lake County's 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Excel Center - Gary, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 13.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School has held roughly steady, going from 443 students in 2018 to 447 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 28% across the same window.

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