Summary:
ZIP code 46324 contains four elementary schools — Thomas A Edison Elementary School, Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, and Frank O'Bannon Elementary School — all serving grades PK–6 within the School City of Hammond, a district ranked 351 of 374 in Indiana (6th percentile) with 0 stars. Together they enroll 2,454 students.
Each school has a distinct profile. Jefferson has the strongest math (19.93% proficient) along with the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (49.47%) and highest per-student spending ($13,994), though its ELA is just 12.42%. O'Bannon leads in ELA (12.77%) and science (17.89%), has the lowest chronic absenteeism (25.9%) and smallest classes (15.5 students per teacher), but the weakest math (9.12%), including 0% proficiency in 6th-grade math. Edison, the largest school at 705 students, posts the best 6th-grade ELA (11.63%) and science (16.28%) but the largest classes (19.3 students per teacher). Burns-Hicks faces the greatest challenges — lowest ELA (9.82%) and science (11.46%), highest absenteeism (35.8%), and lowest spending ($10,922) — yet its 5th-grade social studies reached 20.73%, up from 3.7% the prior year.
Key takeaways for parents: no school reaches state averages in any reported subject or grade, and all four hold 0 stars, with rank percentiles between 5 and 10. Every school's chronic absenteeism exceeds the state's 16.7%. Rank percentile has declined at three of the four schools over three years, and Burns-Hicks remains very low. Relative strengths are genuine but narrow — math at Jefferson and Edison, ELA and science at O'Bannon, 6th grade at Edison, and 5th-grade social studies at Burns-Hicks.
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