✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-8166 students12.4 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
Christian schools in Merrillville, IN
6 in Merrillville or within 6 miles. 5 are on the state’s Choice Scholarship list. Protestant and nondenominational Christian schools, going by the affiliation each school gave the federal survey (for schools new since then in Florida, the state’s private school directory).
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-854 students8.2 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades K-811 students11 students per teacherSeventh-Day AdventistCo-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades K-544 students11 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades K-8184 students12.9 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades K-552 students17.3 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
Christian schools near Merrillville by the numbers
- Where
- 0 in Merrillville, 6 within 6 miles
- Students
- about 511 in all; the typical school has 54
- Smallest and largest
- Northwest Adventist Christian School, 11 students; Ambassador Christian Academy, 184 students
- Students per teacher
- 12.4 typical, 8.2 to 17.3 across 6 schools
- Not taught by these 6
- high school
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- State program
- Scholarship, about $6,000 to $8,300, set by your home school district
How Choice Scholarship works
- Pre-K (and up)2
- Elementary (K to 5)6
- Middle (6 to 8)4
- Under 502
- 50 to 1492
- 150 to 2992
- Christian schools here83%
- 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.
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