Cynthia Heights Elementary School

Cynthia Heights Elementary School is an average-sized elementary school in Evansville, Indiana, overseen by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. The school instructs 451 students in grades K through 5.

Within Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, which oversees 38 schools and 21,589 students, Cynthia Heights Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Cynthia Heights Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Cynthia Heights Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at Cynthia Heights Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Vanderburgh County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cynthia Heights Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Vanderburgh County put median household income runs about $61,648, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Cynthia Heights Elementary School is one of 44 public schools in Vanderburgh County (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: Central High School, around 3.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cynthia Heights Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cynthia Heights Elementary School has fell 12%, going from 515 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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