Wilbur Wright Middle School

As a sprawling 6-8 campus in Munster, Indiana, Wilbur Wright Middle School serves 990 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by School Town of Munster. Enrollment runs roughly 67% above the state mean of about 594.

Wilbur Wright Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by School Town of Munster, a district that works with 4,101 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wilbur Wright Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Lake County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wilbur Wright Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lake County put median household income runs about $71,493, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lake County runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), of which Wilbur Wright Middle School is one.

Munster High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wilbur Wright Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 946 students in 2018 compared to 990 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 21% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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