Summary:
ZIP code 46410 covers Merrillville, Indiana, where 9 schools serve 6,163 students across elementary (PK–4 and K–8), middle (5–8), and high school grades. Eight of them belong to Merrillville Community School Corp, rated 256th of 374 districts statewide (2 stars), while Higher Institute of Arts & Technical is its own single-school district, ranked 366th of 374 (0 stars). Merrillville High School alone enrolls 2,115 students — 34% of everyone in the ZIP.
Two elementaries stand out. Henry P Fieler Elementary is the only district elementary with 3 stars (69th percentile, up 36 percentile points in two years), posting 47.68% ELA and 56.95% math — far above the district's 31% — despite carrying the highest poverty and absenteeism rates of the eight district schools. Small John Wood Elementary also earns 3 stars and beats the state in math at both tested grades, but its science proficiency is 20.75%, less than half the state's 43.8%. At the other end, Higher Institute of Arts & Technical sits in the bottom 3rd percentile (11.38% ELA, 4.79% math), and Homer Iddings Elementary posts the weakest district results despite the ZIP's lowest poverty rate. Jonas E Salk Elementary has the best attendance in the ZIP at 12.6% chronic absenteeism, but slipped from 3 stars to 2.
Merrillville High School graduates 91.2% of students — above the state's 89.7% — yet only 32.3% meet SAT reading benchmarks and 11.11% meet math benchmarks, with 25.7% chronic absenteeism. District math proficiency falls from 40.99% in 3rd grade to 17.88% in 8th, dropping most sharply between 6th and 7th grade as students move to Pierce Middle School. Per-pupil spending ranges from $10,755 to $15,371 with no clear link to results.
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