Delaware Elementary School

Set in Evansville, Indiana, Delaware Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community, operated by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. It works with 379 students across grades K through 6.

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

On demographics, Delaware Elementary School shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Black, 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 3% Pacific Islander. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Vanderburgh County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Delaware Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 14.4%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Vanderburgh County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,648 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Vanderburgh County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students), of which Delaware Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Joshua Academy, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Delaware Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.5%.

Delaware Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Delaware Elementary School has fell 19%, going from 467 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 57% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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