Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Douglas MacArthur Elementary School, Cedar Lake, IN

Douglas MacArthur Elementary School is a public elementary school in Cedar Lake, part of Crown Point Community School Corp. It enrolled 466 students in 2024-25, with 17.3 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Douglas MacArthur Elem School".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 466
Teachers (FTE): 27.0
Students per teacher: 17.3
Grades: PK to 5

This school's ratio is 1.1 lower than the district figure of 18.4. The Indiana average across schools is 15.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.3

District18.4

Indiana15.5

United States15.3

School details

Address: 12900 Fairbanks, Cedar Lake, IN 46303
Phone: (219)662-3600
District: Crown Point Community School Corp
County: Lake County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 180249000294

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 134
Reduced-price lunch: 9
Free or reduced-price lunch: 14330.7% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 102Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

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 Crown Point Community School Corp

Winfield Elementary School 658 students
Jerry Ross Elementary School 650 students
Timothy Ball Elementary School 638 students
Lake Street Elementary School 559 students
Solon Robinson Elementary School 516 students
Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School 494 students

Elementary schools elsewhere in Cedar Lake

Red Cedars Elementary Hanover Community School Corp
Jane Ball Elementary School Hanover Community School Corp
Lincoln Elementary School Hanover Community School Corp

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.