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What's something Thomas Jefferson Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
570
Elementary
DISTRICT 580 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND·NCES 180432000749
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
6940 Northcote Ave, Hammond, IN 46324 · (219) 989-7353 · Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL570 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
282 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 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 25% larger than its 6th grade class (60).
Student demographics
63%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
15.4%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
20.8%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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
17.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.5%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% 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 Jefferson Elementary School
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (17.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary School this school | 570 | 49.5% | 17.8% |
| Joseph Hess Elementary School Hammond | 611 | 50.2% | 14.5% |
| Thomas A Edison Elementary School Hammond | 705 | 54.0% | 17.5% |
| Frank O'Bannon Elementary School Hammond | 557 | 56.4% | 13.6% |
| Willow Lake Elementary School Indianapolis | 739 | 53.0% | 24.6% |
| Fox Hill Elementary School Indianapolis | 603 | 50.2% | 38.1% |
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 Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #871 of 983 | #41 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.8% | #862 of 986 | #42 of 61 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.4% | #895 of 986 | #43 of 61 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 570 | #226 of 1,079 | #16 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #597 of 991 | #26 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #213 of 996 | #14 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.5% | #611 of 1,058 | #40 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.0% | #100 of 353 | #11 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
570
+99 (+21%) vs 2020
+73% since 1990-91, when it was 330
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 570 | 36.4 | 15.7:1 | 49% (282) |
| 2023-24 | 415 | 32.4 | 12.8:1 | 53% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 439 | 28.5 | 15.4:1 | 77% (337) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 25 | 18.8:1 | 69% (326) |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 22 | 21.8:1 | 62% (297) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 22 | 20.1:1 | 61% (269) |
| 2010-11 | 507 | 21 | 24.1:1 | 61% (311) |
| 2000-01 | 301 | 19 | 15.8:1 | 34% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 330 | 16 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson Elementary School.
About Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Indiana, located in Hammond. The school reports 570 students in pre-K through 6. The school's enrollment is 31% above the 436 average for elementary schools in Indiana.
School City of Hammond, which runs Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, has 15 schools and 10,997 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is Black (44%). Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 11% White, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 23% Black. By the diversity index, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School comes in at 63%.
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School counts 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.7 students for each one. Elementary schools in Indiana have a similar average ratio of 15.5:1. About 49% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Across public schools in Lake County, the average is about the same, 47%.
Test results at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School are 22.7 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 17.8%, compared with a predicted 40.5%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Indiana.
Lake County has about 500,379 residents, and 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%. Federal data list 121 public schools in Lake County, with a combined enrollment of about 74,661.
The next-closest public school is Frank O'Bannon Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School's average proficiency of 17.8% compares with 27.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Under the NCES locale system, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 471 in 2020-21 and 570 in 2024-25, a gain of 99 students. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (15.7:1) than in 2020-21 (18.8:1).
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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
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 705 students
- Henry W Eggers Middle SchoolMiddle · 693 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
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 705 students
- Henry W Eggers Middle SchoolMiddle · 693 students
Other Thomas Jefferson Elementary schools
27 other US public schools in 15 states are named Thomas Jefferson Elementary. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 28.
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolJeffersonville, IN · 326 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolValparaiso, IN · 285 students
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryGlendale, CA · 815 students
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryBurbank, CA · 758 students
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryLouisa, VA · 672 students
Nearby schools
- Frank O'Bannon Elementary School0.6 mi · 557
- Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School1.1 mi · 622
- Thomas A Edison Elementary School1.1 mi · 705
- Morton Elementary School1.2 mi · 525
- Lew Wallace Elementary School1.4 mi · 450
- Hammond Central High School1.7 mi · 1,814
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolHow large is Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 570 students in grades PK-06.
Is Thomas Jefferson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Thomas Jefferson Elementary School have?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
How diverse is Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School reports a student body of 11% White, 40% Hispanic, 44% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is overseen by School City of Hammond in Lake County.
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