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School City of Hammond

Hammond, Indiana · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

10,507
Students enrolled
14
Public schools
554
Classroom teachers (FTE)
19.0:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 517
  • Kindergarten 714
  • Grade 1 792
  • Grade 2 788
  • Grade 3 801
  • Grade 4 785
  • Grade 5 807
  • Grade 6 687
  • Grade 7 653
  • Grade 8 703
  • Grade 9 771
  • Grade 10 829
  • Grade 11 808
  • Grade 12 852

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 48%
  • Black or African American 39%
  • White 8%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Asian <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

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

54% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 5,242 of 9,755 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 51%
  • Reduced-price lunch 3%

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

$14,230 spent per student on day-to-day operations Indiana median: $12,990 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $7,085
  • Support services $6,319
  • Other (food service, etc.) $826

Where the money comes from

  • Local 26%
  • State 53%
  • Federal 20%

Total revenue $208.6 milliontotal spending $191.3 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

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Large

Total staff (FTE)

646

District office

41 Williams Street, Hammond IN 46320

County

Lake County

Official website

NCES District ID

1804320

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About School City of Hammond

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The School City of Hammond is committed to providing diverse learning experiences and environments to develop high educational attainment for lifelong learners. 
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