Lake Street Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Crown Point, Indiana, Lake Street Elementary School teaches 559 students from grades K through 5, operated by Crown Point Community School Corp. Enrollment runs roughly 28% larger than the state mean of about 436.

Within Crown Point Community School Corp, which oversees 10 schools and 9,147 students, Lake Street Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lake Street Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, Lake Street Elementary School records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at Lake Street Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lake Street Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.2%; this one delivers 70.4%.

Across the wider county, Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,493 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Lake Street Elementary School is one of 121 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students).

Nearest neighbor: Colonel John Wheeler Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lake Street Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Lake Street Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Lake Street Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 558 (now 559).

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