Summary:
Schools in the Higher Institute of Arts & Technical area amount to a single school — Higher Institute of Arts & Technical, an elementary school serving grades K–8 to 259 students at 5861 Harrison Street in Merrillville, Indiana — and because it is the only school in its district, there are no in-district peers to compare it against.
By state measures, this school sits near the bottom. The district ranks 366th of 374 in Indiana, at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars, and the school itself ranked 981st of 1,015 in 2025–26, at the 3rd percentile with 0 stars. That percentile has slipped steadily, from 7 in 2023–24 to 6 in 2024–25 to 3 in 2025–26, while the star rating stayed at 0 each year. In 2025–26, all-grade proficiency was 11.38% in ELA, 4.79% in Math, and 10.87% in Science. Every reported grade-level result trails the state. ELA gaps run from about -21 points in 4th grade (21.05% versus 42.2%) to nearly -35 points in 5th grade, and Math gaps range from about -28 points in 8th grade to -45 points in 3rd grade (6.90% versus 51.9%), with 7th grade Math reported at 0%. 4th grade ELA, at 21.05%, is the strongest grade-level result; 4th grade Math, at 10.53%, is the best Math result but still far below the state's 52.0%.
Context matters for parents: 32.5% of students were chronically absent in 2024–25, nearly double Indiana's 16.7%, and 79.54% received free or reduced-price lunch. Per-student spending was $15,371 and the student-teacher ratio was 14.3, so low outcomes are not explained by obviously thin resources or very large classes. There are small positive signs — all-grade Science rose from 8.47% to 10.87%, and 5th grade Social Studies improved from 4.55% to 7.41% — but both remain more than 30 percentage points below state rates.
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