Fayette Elementary School

As a low-enrollment elementary school in West Terre Haute, Indiana, Fayette Elementary School caters to 307 students from grades K through 5, part of Vigo County School Corp. That puts it 30% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Vigo County School Corp comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 13,277 students; Fayette Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Fayette Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, Fayette Elementary School reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Vigo County (around 62%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fayette Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 39.3%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Vigo County put median household earnings sit near $52,976, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Vigo County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,416 students), of which Fayette Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Van Duyn Elementary School, around 5.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fayette Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Fayette Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 47% since 2018, when it stood at 209 (now 307). The White share of enrollment edged down from 99% to 94% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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