Merrillville Community School Corp
Key statistics
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.
Students
By grade
- Pre-K 157
- Kindergarten 349
- Grade 1 387
- Grade 2 384
- Grade 3 418
- Grade 4 428
- Grade 5 426
- Grade 6 362
- Grade 7 421
- Grade 8 457
- Grade 9 518
- Grade 10 523
- Grade 11 577
- Grade 12 491
- Ungraded 6
By race/ethnicity
- Black or African American 66%
- Hispanic/Latino 20%
- White 8%
- Two or more races 6%
- Asian <1%
- American Indian or Alaska Native <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
- Free lunch 46%
- Reduced-price lunch 5%
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
Spending per student
- Instruction $6,884
- Support services $5,149
- Other (food service, etc.) $680
Where the money comes from
- Local 38%
- State 50%
- Federal 12%
Total revenue $115.9 milliontotal spending $104.5 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: LargeStudents: 96% suburb, 4% rural
Total staff (FTE)
919
District office
6701 Delaware St, Merrillville IN 46410
Phone
County
Lake County
Official website
NCES District ID
1809690
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About Merrillville Community School Corp
Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.