Thea Bowman Leadership Academy 鈥� Lake County, IN

Key statistics

773

Students enrolled

1

Public schools

45

Classroom teachers (FTE)

17.2:1

Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

Kindergarten 47
Grade 1 48
Grade 2 48
Grade 3 59
Grade 4 61
Grade 5 42
Grade 6 70
Grade 7 73
Grade 8 75
Grade 9 82
Grade 10 69
Grade 11 49
Grade 12 50

By race/ethnicity

Black or African American 93%
Hispanic/Latino 5%
Two or more races 2%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

64% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 493 of 773 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 60%
Reduced-price lunch 4%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$14,975 spent per student on day-to-day operations Indiana median: $12,990 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $7,024
Support services $7,219
Other (food service, etc.) $733

Where the money comes from

Local 1%
State 49%
Federal 49%

Total revenue $19.1 milliontotal spending $17.0 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

KG to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Large

Total staff (FTE)

101

District office

3401 W 5th Ave, Gary IN 46406

Phone

(219) 883-4826

County

Lake County

Official website

NCES District ID

1800025

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About Thea Bowman Leadership Academy

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Thea Bowman Leadership Academy believes that educated citizens emerge as the true leaders of a community. The Thea Bowman Leadership Academy is named after Thea Bowman, a Mississippi- born African American Roman Catholic nun whose genius, poise and leadership have been an inspiration to all who know her life. The Thea Bowman Leadership Academy is dedicated to living up to the stellar quality of the person it identifies and for the community constancy it represents. The purpose of the Thea Bowman Leadership Academy is to provide a high quality academic option within the public schools. The Academy has a rigorous and challenging curriculum that provides children with the academic and citizenship skills to better enable them to succeed as lifelong learners and to prepare them for community leadership.

Public Schools in Thea Bowman Leadership Academy (1)

All levels Elementary Middle High Other