Summary:
Munster, Indiana is served by five public schools — three elementaries (PK/K–5), one middle school (6–8), and one high school (9–12) — all belonging to School Town of Munster, a district that ranks 9th of 374 Indiana districts. Roughly 4,101 students attend, and every school in the city performs well above the state average: the lowest-ranked school here still sits at the 88th percentile statewide, and four of the five carry a 5-star rating.
Frank H Hammond Elementary School stands out as the district's academic anchor, ranked 18th of 1,015 Indiana elementary schools and in the state's top 25 for three straight years, with math proficiency of 83.59% — the strongest in the city. Munster High School is a top-20 Indiana high school (17th of 415) with a 98.0% graduation rate versus 89.7% statewide, though its SAT math proficiency of 48.32% — nearly double the state's 25.6% — shows that even this elite school has fewer than half its juniors proficient in math. Wilbur Wright Middle School ranks 17th of 486 middle schools and posted a striking Biology end-of-course rate of 100% in one year, which reflects a small accelerated cohort rather than the whole school.
James B Eads Elementary School and Ernest R Elliott Elementary School sit a step below their peers — solid 91st and 88th percentiles, but Elliott is the district's only 4-star school and posts the weakest 5th-grade math result (53.57%). Eads is the one school showing a clear downward trend, with all-grades math slipping about 7 points. Across all five schools, chronic absenteeism ranges from 6.9% to 8.8% against a 16.7% state rate, and math remains the clearest area for improvement relative to the district's strong reading results.
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