Public school / High
East Chicago Central High School
East Chicago, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 180288002272
- District
- School City of East Chicago
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
East Chicago Central High School is a public high school in East Chicago, Indiana, run by School City of East Chicago. It enrols 1,079 students — the 7312th largest of 1,930 public schools in Indiana.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,079
Teachers
77.0
Students per teacher
14.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
77.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within School City of East Chicago
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1East Chicago Central High School1,079 students
- 2William Mckinley Elementary School488 students
- 3Joseph Block Middle School487 students
- 4George Washington Elementary Sch462 students
- 5Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch396 students
- 6Abraham Lincoln Elementary School286 students
- 7Carrie Gosch Pk Center150 students
- Enrollment+121.6%
- Teachers+156.7%
- Students per teacher−9.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+44.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory