Northwest Indiana Online School

Located at 601 W Morgan Ave, in Chesterton, Indiana, Northwest Indiana Online School is a minimally staffed K-12 campus that instructs 130 students (grades K through 12), part of Duneland School Corporation. Enrollment runs roughly 76% below the state mean of about 531.

Duneland School Corporation comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 5,732 students; Northwest Indiana Online School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northwest Indiana Online School shows that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 19% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Porter County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 117.1:1. The state averages around 24.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Porter County) records that median household earnings sit near $87,972, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Porter County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students), Northwest Indiana Online School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Liberty Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.