Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 4
Homer Iddings Elementary School, Merrillville, IN
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 535
- Teachers (FTE)
- 36.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.9
- Grades
- PK to 4
This school's ratio is 1.0 higher than the district figure of 13.9. 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
- 7249 VanBuren St, Merrillville, IN 46410
- Phone
- (219)650-5302
- County
- Lake County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 180969001583
School meals
- Free lunch
- 217
- Reduced-price lunch
- 20
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 23744.3% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 174Students 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 Merrillville Community School Corp
- Jonas E Salk Elementary School 565 students
- Henry P Fieler Elementary School 466 students
- Edgar L Miller Elementary School 330 students
- John Wood Elementary School 227 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Merrillville
- Higher Institute of Arts & Tech Higher Institute of Arts & Tech
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.