Evans School

Evans School is a medium-sized elementary school in Evansville, Indiana, overseen by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. The school educates 473 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 21,589 students; Evans School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Evans School logs that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Black, 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Evans School records 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Vanderburgh County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Evans School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.2%.

In the surrounding community, Vanderburgh County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,648, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Vanderburgh County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students), Evans School is one campus in the mix.

EVSC Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Evans School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.0%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Evans School's enrollment has edged down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 575 (now 473). Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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