Fairlawn Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Evansville, Indiana, Fairlawn Elementary School instructs 450 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.

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

Looking at the student body, Fairlawn Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 21% Black, 14% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Vanderburgh County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Fairlawn Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Vanderburgh County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Fairlawn Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.8%; actual is 8.9%, a gap of -23.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Vanderburgh County) records that median household income runs about $61,648, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Fairlawn Elementary School is one of 44 public schools in Vanderburgh County (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students).

Lodge Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairlawn Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 15.7%.

Fairlawn Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairlawn Elementary School has climbed 18%, going from 381 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 56% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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