Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6
George Washington Elementary Sch, East Chicago, IN
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 433
- Teachers (FTE)
- 27.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.0
- Grades
- K to 6
This school's ratio is 2.7 higher than the district figure of 13.3. 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
- 2400 Cardinal Drive, East Chicago, IN 46312
- Phone
- (219)391-4169
- District
- School City of East Chicago
- County
- Lake County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 180288000368
School meals
- Free lunch
- 295
- Reduced-price lunch
- 18
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 31372.3% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 246Students 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 East Chicago
- William McKinley Elementary School 509 students
- Benjamin Harrison Elementary Sch 400 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary School 282 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in East Chicago
- East Chicago Lighthouse East Chicago Lighthouse Charter
- East Chicago Urban Enterprise Academy East Chicago Urban Enterprise Academy
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.