Summary:
ZIP code 46403 contains exactly one middle school: Gary Middle School, located at 301 Parke St in Gary, Indiana, serving grades 6–8 with roughly 365 students — about 122 per grade. It is part of the Gary Community School Corp, a district that ranks 365th of 374 statewide (2nd percentile, 0 stars). Because there is only one campus here, the useful benchmarks are the district and the state rather than a comparison among local schools.
Academically, the school has held the 3rd percentile in statewide rankings across all three years of available history (2025‑2026: 471 of 486; 2024‑2025: 464 of 480; 2023‑2024: 474 of 491), earning 0 stars each year. Current ILEARN proficiency ranges from 5.15% in grade‑6 math to 11.11% in grade‑8 ELA — every tested subject and grade sits 27 to 35 percentage points below the state and represents only about 13–25% of the state rate. The relative bright spots: the school outperforms its own district in six of seven grade‑level comparisons, grade‑8 ELA (11.11%) is both its highest result and clearly above the district's 8.13%, and math more than doubled year over year at all grades (2.46% to 6.13%), even as ELA and science declined.
For families, the most important context number is chronic absenteeism: 67.5%, roughly four times the state's 16.7% and above the district's 63.6% — about two of every three students. Resources do not appear to be the constraint, with $18,400 in per‑student spending and a 14.4 student‑teacher ratio. One caution when reading any comparison: the district's "All Grades" figures don't reconcile with its own grade‑level results and likely cover a different student population, so grade‑level data is the more trustworthy basis for judging this school.
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