Whiting Middle School

Whiting Middle School operates as a low-enrollment intermediate school in Whiting, Indiana, operated by School City of Whiting. Current enrollment sits at 250 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 58% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Whiting Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by School City of Whiting, a district that caters to 1,091 students overall.

On demographics, Whiting Middle School logs that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 12% White, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, On paper, Whiting Middle School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Lake County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Whiting Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.1%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of +6.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $71,493 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lake County's 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), Whiting Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Whiting High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Whiting Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Whiting Middle School has declined 4%, going from 261 students in 2018 to 250 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 67% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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