School City of Hammond
Lake County Has Lost Students Every Year for a Decade
Hammond's School City enrolled 13,860 students in 2016. By fall 2025, it had 10,507. Then it lost another 802 in a single year, dropping to 9,705 and falling below 10,000 for the first time in the dis...
Four in Five Indiana Districts Never Recovered from COVID
Five years after the pandemic emptied classrooms across Indiana, the state's enrollment has not just failed to recover. It has gotten worse.