Thomas A Edison Jr-Sr HS

Set in Lake Station, Indiana, Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS is a close-knit four-year high school, run under Lake Station Community Schools. It enrolls 595 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS sits 27% below that benchmark.

Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS is one of 3 schools operated by Lake Station Community Schools, a district that educates 1,030 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 34% White, 17% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, On paper, Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lake County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.8%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -9.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Lake County) reports that 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%. In all, Lake County runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), of which Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS is one.

Virgil I Bailey Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 17.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas An Edison Jr-Sr HS has contracted 10%, going from 664 students in 2018 to 595 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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