Summary:
Gary Middle College is the sole high school located in the Gary, Indiana area, serving grades 9-12 with a total enrollment of 176 students. The school has a majority African American student population (84.66%) and faces significant challenges, including consistently poor performance, alarmingly low graduation rates, and severe academic struggles.
Gary Middle College has ranked in the bottom 10% of Indiana high schools for the past 3 school years and holds a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating very poor overall performance. The school's 4-year graduation rate is an extremely low 11.7%, and it has a staggeringly high chronic absenteeism rate of 92.1%, suggesting that the majority of students are missing a significant amount of instructional time. Academically, only 8% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in Evidence-based Reading and Writing, and 0% were proficient or better in Mathematics.
The data also reveals that 55.68% of students at Gary Middle College were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage. The school's per-student spending for the 2021-2022 school year was $15,264, and the student-teacher ratio for the 2022-2023 school year was 17.6 to 1. These socioeconomic factors likely contribute to the challenges the school faces in providing a quality education to its students.
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