Enrollment
282
Elementary
DISTRICT 472 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVANSVILLE VANDERBURGH SCHOOL CORP·NCES 180345002275
Daniel Wertz Elementary School
1702 S Red Bank Rd, Evansville, IN 47712 · (812) 435-8312 · Vanderburgh County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL282 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 31% of Indiana public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
153 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
33.9%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
45.5%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.1%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Daniel Wertz Elementary School
Daniel Wertz Elementary School's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Wertz Elementary School this school | 282 | 54.3% | 34.5% |
| Clear Creek Elementary School Bloomington | 294 | 54.8% | 31.2% |
| Francis Vigo Elementary School Vincennes | 314 | 53.8% | 33.7% |
| Stringtown Elementary School Evansville | 313 | 52.1% | 26.3% |
| Harris Elementary School Greenfield | 273 | 58.6% | 48.5% |
| Webb Elementary School Franklin | 319 | 51.7% | 37.9% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Daniel Wertz Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Vanderburgh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #624 of 983 | #9 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #505 of 986 | #7 of 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.9% | #591 of 986 | #9 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 282 | #871 of 1,079 | #21 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #63 of 991 | #5 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.7% | #526 of 996 | #16 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.3% | #500 of 1,058 | #15 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #254 of 597 | #10 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
282
+26 (+10%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 395
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 282 | 24.2 | 11.6:1 | 54% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 287 | 24.1 | 11.9:1 | 59% (170) |
| 2022-23 | 315 | 20 | 15.8:1 | 59% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 256 | 21 | 12.2:1 | 67% (172) |
| 2017-18 | 331 | 21 | 15.8:1 | 72% (238) |
| 2015-16 | 345 | 23 | 15.0:1 | 74% (254) |
| 2010-11 | 329 | 21 | 15.7:1 | 73% (239) |
| 2000-01 | 313 | 24 | 13.0:1 | 55% (172) |
| 1990-91 | 395 | 24 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Daniel Wertz Elementary School.
About Daniel Wertz Elementary School
Daniel Wertz Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school with its address in Evansville, Indiana. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 282 students. Elementary schools in Indiana have about 436 students on average; enrollment here is 35% lower.
Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp (38 schools, 21,589 students) runs Daniel Wertz Elementary School.
More than half of the students at Daniel Wertz Elementary School are White (76%). The rest of enrollment is 12% multiracial, 7% Black, and 5% Hispanic. The diversity index for Daniel Wertz Elementary School is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 24.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 11.6:1. Compared with the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana, this school's ratio is lower. On the income side, 54% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Daniel Wertz Elementary School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 31% of Indiana public elementary schools.
Schools in Indiana with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 37.1%. Daniel Wertz Elementary School scores 34.5%.
Vanderburgh County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $61,648 a year, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Vanderburgh County number 44, with about 22,423 students.
Daniel Wertz Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Tekoppel Elementary School, about 1.6 miles away. Within five miles of Daniel Wertz Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Daniel Wertz Elementary School is 4th of 5 on proficiency.
Daniel Wertz Elementary School falls in the City: Mid-size locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count increased 10% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Vanderburgh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
180,117
Census ACS
Median income
$61,648
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
22,423 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- William Henry Harrison High SchoolHigh · 1,332 students
- Francis Joseph Reitz High SchoolHigh · 1,293 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,087 students
- North Junior High SchoolMiddle · 925 students
- McCutchanville Elementary SchoolElementary · 919 students
Other schools in Evansville
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- William Henry Harrison High SchoolHigh · 1,332 students
- Francis Joseph Reitz High SchoolHigh · 1,293 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,087 students
- North Junior High SchoolMiddle · 925 students
- McCutchanville Elementary SchoolElementary · 919 students
Nearby schools
- Tekoppel Elementary School1.6 mi · 440
- Francis Joseph Reitz High School1.6 mi · 1,293
- Perry Heights Middle School1.8 mi · 471
- West Terrace Elementary School2.4 mi · 504
- Helfrich Park STEM Academy2.4 mi · 509
- Indiana Agriculture & Technology School - USI Campus2.6 mi · 38
Frequently asked questions
About Daniel Wertz Elementary SchoolHow large is Daniel Wertz Elementary School?
Daniel Wertz Elementary School enrolls approximately 282 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Daniel Wertz Elementary School serve?
Daniel Wertz Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Daniel Wertz Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Daniel Wertz Elementary School is approximately 11.6:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Daniel Wertz Elementary School?
At Daniel Wertz Elementary School, the student body is approximately 76% White, 5% Hispanic, 7% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Daniel Wertz Elementary School public or private?
Daniel Wertz Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.
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