Lew Wallace Elementary School

Lew Wallace Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Hammond, Indiana, under School City of Hammond. There are 450 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 6.

Besides Lew Wallace Elementary School, School City of Hammond runs 14 other schools. The district enrolls 10,997 students.

No group is above 50% at Lew Wallace Elementary School; the largest is Hispanic, at 47%. The rest of enrollment is 44% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% White. Among all residents of Lake County, the Hispanic share is about 21%. The diversity index for Lew Wallace Elementary School is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

There are about 17.5 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Lew Wallace Elementary School, which has 26.7. Elementary schools in Indiana average 15.5:1, 2.0 fewer students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Lew Wallace Elementary School is about 61%. That is higher than the 47% average for public schools in Lake County.

Census data for Lake County show median household income comes to about $71,493, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 121 public schools and about 74,661 students.

Lew Wallace Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Lew Wallace Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

From 415 students in 2017-18, enrollment rose to 450 by 2023-24.

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