Public school / Primary
John Wood Elementary School
Merrillville, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 180969001584
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
John Wood Elementary School is a public primary school in Merrillville, Indiana, run by Merrillville Community School Corp. It enrols 315 students — the 63520th 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
315
Teachers
20.0
Students per teacher
15.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
60.3%
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 Merrillville Community School Corp
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.
- 1Merrillville High School2,042 students
- 2Pierce Middle School919 students
- 3Merrillville Intermediate School855 students
- 4Jonas E Salk Elementary School587 students
- 5Homer Iddings Elementary School488 students
- 6Henry P Fieler Elementary School447 students
- 7Edgar L Miller Elementary School351 students
- 8John Wood Elementary School315 students
- Enrollment−35.3%
- Teachers−33.3%
- Students per teacher+1.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+12.3%
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