Summary:
Lake Station Community Schools in Indiana serves about 1,030 students across three schools: one junior-senior high school (grades 6–12) and two elementary schools (K–5). The district is ranked 328 of 374 in 2025–2026—12th percentile, 1 star—and about 76% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Thomas A Edison Junior-Senior High School enrolls 595 students (57.8% of the district), while Virgil I Bailey Elementary School has 235 and Alexander Hamilton Elementary School has 200.
Alexander Hamilton Elementary School is the clear bright spot, with 2 stars (691 of 1,015 schools, 32nd percentile) and the highest all-grades ILEARN proficiency in the district: ELA 29.47%, Math 37.89%, and Science 34.21%. It also has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 22.6% and improved sharply from 2024–2025. Virgil I Bailey Elementary School has a relative math strength—28.15% proficiency, well above the district’s 21.06%—despite the highest free/reduced-lunch rate at 86.38%, but its ELA (14.93%) and Science (15.22%) are low. Thomas A Edison Junior-Senior High School faces the deepest challenges: lowest all-grades Math (8.42%) and ELA (13.86%), highest chronic absenteeism (34.4%), SAT Math proficiency of only 3.53%, and a graduation rate of 84.4% versus the state’s 89.7%.
Chronic absenteeism is a district-wide issue: every school is above the state rate of 16.7%—Hamilton 22.6%, Bailey 31.3%, Edison 34.4%. Spending per student ranges from $12,023 at Edison to $12,913 at Hamilton, and Edison has a much larger student–teacher ratio (18.4) than Bailey (13.5) or Hamilton (13.9). Test-score gaps versus the state are very large: Edison’s 6th-grade ELA is 5.45% versus the state’s 41.3%, and Bailey’s 4th-grade ELA is 4.35% versus 42.2%. Overall, this is a high-poverty, low-ranked district with one emerging bright spot in Hamilton, a relative math strength at Bailey, and severe academic and attendance challenges at Edison.
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