Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Virgil I Bailey Elementary School, Lake Station, IN
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 235
- Teachers (FTE)
- 17.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.8
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 2.3 lower than the district figure of 16.1. 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
- 2100 Union St, Lake Station, IN 46405
- Phone
- (219)962-1302
- District
- Lake Station Community Schools
- County
- Lake County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 180291000381
School meals
- Free lunch
- 173
- Reduced-price lunch
- 30
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 20386.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 136Students 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 Lake Station Community Schools
- Alexander Hamilton Elementary Sch 200 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Lake Station
- Henry S Evans Elementary School River Forest Community Sch 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.