Dexter Elementary School

Dexter Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in Evansville, Indiana, overseen by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, with 384 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Dexter Elementary School logs that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Black, 20% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 2% 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 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at Dexter Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Vanderburgh County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, Dexter Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.2%; this one comes in at 14.8%, -17.5 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Vanderburgh County put 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 Dexter Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: McGary Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dexter Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Dexter Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.2%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dexter Elementary School has rose 3%, going from 374 students in 2018 to 384 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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