Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Banneker Elementary at Marquette, Gary, IN
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 293
- Teachers (FTE)
- 16.0
- Students per teacher
- 18.3
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 2.8 higher than the district figure of 15.5. The Indiana average across schools is 15.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 6401 Hemlock Ave, Gary, IN 46403
- Phone
- (219)321-8545
- District
- Gary Community School Corp
- County
- Lake County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 180387000613
School meals
- Free lunch
- 185
- Reduced-price lunch
- 5
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 19064.8% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 145Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Gary Community School Corp
- Glen Park Acad for Excel in Lrn 566 students
- Frankie Woods McCullough Academy 472 students
- Daniel Hale Williams Elementary Sch 450 students
- Beveridge Elementary School 374 students
- Mary M Bethune Early Child Dev Ctr 231 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Gary
- Charter School of the Dunes Charter School of the Dunes
- Aspire Charter Academy Aspire Charter Academy
- Longfellow New Tech Elementary Sch Lake Ridge New Tech Schools
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.