Summary:
Schools in East Chicago Urban Enterprise Academy are a single K–8 campus at 1402 E Chicago Ave in East Chicago, Indiana, with 424 students — classified as an elementary school but serving the middle grades as well, so there are no separate middle or high school entries and no other schools to compare it with in this East Chicago Urban Enterprise Academy district. About 63.68% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $14,854, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.3.
The most encouraging news is improvement. All-grade proficiency rose from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in ELA (26.87% to 36.27%), Math (29.85% to 32.98%), and Science (30.34% to 37.78%), and the school's rank climbed 86 places to 539th of 1,015 schools, or the 47th percentile. Early grades are a genuine strength: 4th grade ELA at 43.18%, 5th grade ELA at 48.89%, 3rd grade Math at 53.85%, and 4th grade Math at 56.82% all beat state averages.
Parents should know the upper grades tell a different story. Math falls sharply after 4th grade — 26.67% in 5th, 30.43% in 6th, 18% in 7th, and 11.11% in 8th, which is 23.09 points below the state. ELA also drops in grades 7 and 8, grade 5 Social Studies is 18.31 points below state, and chronic absenteeism is 25.6% versus Indiana's 16.7%. The school has held a 2-star rating in each of the last three years and remains just under the 50th percentile.
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