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Enrollment
705
Elementary
DISTRICT 580 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND·NCES 180432002236
Thomas A Edison Elementary School
7025 Madison Ave, Hammond, IN 46324 · (219) 933-2464 · Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL705 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of Indiana public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
381 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 117 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 74 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (105) is 42% larger than its 6th grade class (74).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
19.0%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
20.4%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.3%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Thomas A Edison Elementary School
Thomas A Edison Elementary School's state test result (17.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas A Edison Elementary School this school | 705 | 54.0% | 17.5% |
| Warren G Harding Elementary School Hammond | 755 | 54.4% | 23.0% |
| Joseph Hess Elementary School Hammond | 611 | 50.2% | 14.5% |
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Hammond | 570 | 49.5% | 17.8% |
| Skiles Test Elementary School Indianapolis | 558 | 59.7% | 22.0% |
| Willow Lake Elementary School Indianapolis | 739 | 53.0% | 24.6% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Thomas A Edison Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.5% | #876 of 983 | #43 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.4% | #863 of 986 | #43 of 61 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #852 of 986 | #39 of 61 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 705 | #79 of 1,079 | #4 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #939 of 991 | #57 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.9% | #246 of 996 | #19 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.0% | #502 of 1,058 | #36 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.6% | #195 of 353 | #15 of 26 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
705
+123 (+21%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 18.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 705 | 36.4 | 19.4:1 | 54% (381) |
| 2023-24 | 634 | 35.3 | 18.0:1 | 58% (366) |
| 2022-23 | 665 | 36.3 | 18.3:1 | 71% (474) |
| 2020-21 | 582 | 32 | 18.2:1 | 80% (463) |
| 2017-18 | 649 | 33.2 | 19.6:1 | 74% (479) |
| 2015-16 | 712 | 34 | 20.9:1 | 84% (597) |
| 2010-11 | 774 | 34 | 22.8:1 | 71% (549) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 23 | 22.6:1 | 47% (244) |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 29 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas A Edison Elementary School.
About Thomas A Edison Elementary School
Thomas A Edison Elementary School serves students in Hammond, Indiana, as a large elementary school. It educates 705 students in pre-K through 6. The school's enrollment is 62% above the 436 average for elementary schools in Indiana.
School City of Hammond operates 15 schools. Combined enrollment is 10,997 students.
Enrollment at Thomas A Edison Elementary School is mixed, with Hispanic students the largest group at 47%. After that, the student body is 39% Black, 9% White, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Lake County is about 21% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Thomas A Edison Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.
Its 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 19.4:1. That ratio is over the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 54%.
The allk12 Grade for Thomas A Edison Elementary School is D. Compared with Indiana public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 5% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Thomas A Edison Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 37.3%. The school's actual rate is 17.5%, 19.8 points lower.
County data help place the school in context: in 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.
The nearest other public school, Frank O'Bannon Elementary School, is about 0.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Thomas A Edison Elementary School places 4th out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
NCES describes the area around Thomas A Edison Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 21%, from 582 to 705. By 2024-25, the school had 19.4 students per teacher, compared with 18.2 in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
500,379
Census ACS
Median income
$71,493
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
121
74,661 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in School City of Hammond
- Hammond Central High SchoolHigh · 1,814 students
- Morton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,446 students
- Warren G Harding Elementary SchoolElementary · 755 students
- Washington Irving Elementary SchElementary · 754 students
- Henry W Eggers Middle SchoolMiddle · 693 students
- Charles N Scott Middle SchoolMiddle · 663 students
Other schools in Hammond
- Hammond Central High SchoolHigh · 1,814 students
- Morton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,446 students
- Warren G Harding Elementary SchoolElementary · 755 students
- Washington Irving Elementary SchElementary · 754 students
- Henry W Eggers Middle SchoolMiddle · 693 students
- Charles N Scott Middle SchoolMiddle · 663 students
Other Thomas A Edison Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Thomas A Edison Elementary. Thomas A Edison Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolUNION CITY, NJ · 767 students
- THOMAS A EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTONAWANDA, NY · 609 students
- Thomas A Edison Elem SchoolWESTLAND, MI · 450 students
- Thomas A Edison Elem SchoolFRASER, MI · 378 students
- Thomas A Edison ElemKansas City, KS · 244 students
Nearby schools
- Frank O'Bannon Elementary School0.7 mi · 557
- Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School0.8 mi · 622
- Lew Wallace Elementary School1.0 mi · 450
- Kenwood Elementary School1.0 mi · 267
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School1.1 mi · 570
- James B Eads Elementary School1.2 mi · 554
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Thomas A Edison Elementary School?
Thomas A Edison Elementary School enrolls approximately 705 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Thomas A Edison Elementary School serve?
Thomas A Edison Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Thomas A Edison Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Thomas A Edison Elementary School is approximately 19.4:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thomas A Edison Elementary School?
At Thomas A Edison Elementary School, the student body is approximately 9% White, 47% Hispanic, 39% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Thomas A Edison Elementary School public or private?
Thomas A Edison Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by School City of Hammond.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.