Excel Center - Gary
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Calumet New Tech High School → Steel City Academy → Calumet Christian School → Bible Baptist School → Griffth Jr/Sr High School → West Side Leadership Academy → Highland High School → Gary Lighthouse Charter School →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Excel Center - Gary compares for families
What families should know about Excel Center - Gary.
- ▸ LocallyIN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+8 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Calumet New Tech High School, Steel City Academy, Calumet Christian School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +1.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 125 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calumet New Tech High School Gary |
Public | 0.7 | 620 | -0.3% |
| Steel City Academy Gary |
Public · charter | 1.4 | 91 | -49.7% |
| Calumet Christian School Griffith |
Private | 2.1 | 178 | +16.3% |
| Bible Baptist School Highland |
Private | 2.4 | 29 | — |
| Griffth Jr/Sr High School Griffith |
Public | 2.5 | 657 | +7.9% |
| West Side Leadership Academy Gary |
Public | 3.1 | 1,227 | +0.1% |
| Highland High School Highland |
Public | 3.3 | 969 | -5.1% |
| Gary Lighthouse Charter School Gary |
Public · charter | 3.3 | 444 | -2.4% |