Davis Park Elementary School

Located at 310 S 18th St, in Terre Haute, Indiana, Davis Park Elementary School is a close-knit K-5 school that serves 325 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Vigo County School Corp. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 436.

Davis Park Elementary School is one of 26 schools operated by Vigo County School Corp, a district that serves 13,277 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Davis Park Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 16% Black, 14% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Vigo County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Vigo County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Davis Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 11.1%, the actual is 20.5%, a residual of +9.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Vigo County indicate median household income runs about $52,976, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Vigo County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,416 students), Davis Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Woodrow Wilson Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Davis Park Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 23.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Davis Park Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 327 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 11% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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