High · Indiana
East Chicago Central High School
Free meals for allEast Chicago Central High School, a public high school in East Chicago, Indiana: grades 9–12, 1,052 students, 13.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of School City of East Chicago.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,052
- Teachers (FTE)
- 79.2
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 65% of high schools in Indiana
Median 14.6 · 405 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 58% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 75% of high schools in Indiana
Median 526 · 408 schools compared
Larger than 76% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with School City of East Chicago.
Location
- Address
- 1100 W Columbus Drive, East Chicago, IN 46312
- Phone
- (219)391-4000
- City or town
- East Chicago
- County
- Lake County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Hammond Academy of Science & TechCharterFree meals for all | 6–12 | 578 | 12.3 |
Area Career CenterCareer and technical | 6–12 | 0 | — |
Hammond Central High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,814 | 21.2 |
| 9–12 | 445 | 18.7 | |
Thornton Fractnl No High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,425 | 16.5 |
Excel Center - HammondCharter | 9–12 | 205 | 34.2 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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