Warren G Harding Elementary School

Warren G Harding Elementary School is a K-5 school of sprawling scale in Hammond, Indiana, overseen by School City of Hammond, instructing 755 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 73% larger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

School City of Hammond runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 10,997 students. Warren G Harding Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Warren G Harding Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 31% Black, 14% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, Warren G Harding Elementary School logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Warren G Harding Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.0%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of -14.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lake County) shows that median household earnings sit near $71,493, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Lake County runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), of which Warren G Harding Elementary School is one.

Excel Center - Hammond is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Warren G Harding Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Warren G Harding Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 17.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Warren G Harding Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 756 (now 755). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Warren G Harding Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.