✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-8212 students17.2 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
Catholic schools in Merrillville, IN
8 in Merrillville or within 12 miles. 8 are on the state’s Choice Scholarship list. Parochial, diocesan and independent Catholic schools.
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades 9-12455 students13.5 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed98% to 4-year college
St. Mary School
7 mi✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-8193 students17.5 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-8202 students11.2 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-8371 students14.3 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-8144 students14 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-8163 students14.7 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-8468 students16 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
Catholic schools near Merrillville by the numbers
- Where
- 2 in Merrillville, 6 within 12 miles
- Students
- about 2,208 in all; the typical school has 212
- Smallest and largest
- Our Lady of Grace School, 144 students; St. Thomas More School, 468 students
- Students per teacher
- 14.7 typical, 11.2 to 17.5 across 8 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 7, most often the National Catholic Educational Association
- Verified tuition
- Andrean High School $11,750; St. John Evangelist School $9,400
- State program
- Scholarship, about $6,000 to $8,300, set by your home school district
How Choice Scholarship works
- Pre-K (and up)7
- Elementary (K to 5)7
- Middle (6 to 8)7
- High school (9 to 12)1
- 50 to 1491
- 150 to 2994
- 300 to 5993
- Catholic schools here100%
- All of Indiana66%
Where these facts come from
- Grades, size, affiliation, co-ed, membership, college-going: NCES Private School Universe Survey 2023-24, downloaded September 20, 2026.
- Program list: Indiana Choice Scholarship schools, list read October 26, 2026, checked October 28, 2026.
- Award and rules: Indiana Choice Scholarship, official page, read October 1, 2026.
- Tuition for 2 schools: each school’s own website, last read October 5, 2026.
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