Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6
Benjamin Franklin Elementary Sch, Whiting, IN
CEP schoolBenjamin Franklin Elementary Sch is a public elementary school in Whiting, part of School City of Hammond.
Enrollment and teachers
- Teachers (FTE)
- 16.0
- Grades
- PK to 6
School details
- Address
- 1000 116th St, Whiting, IN 46394
- Phone
- (219)659-1241
- District
- School City of Hammond
- County
- Lake County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 180432000731
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 259
- Reduced-price lunch
- 10
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 269
- Direct certification
- 123Students 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 School City of Hammond
- Warren G Harding Elementary School 755 students
- Washington Irving Elementary Sch 754 students
- Thomas A Edison Elementary School 705 students
- Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School 622 students
- Joseph Hess Elementary School 611 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School 570 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary School 565 students
- Frank O'Bannon Elementary School 557 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Whiting
- Nathan Hale Elementary School School City of Whiting
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.