Harper Elementary School

Harper Elementary School is one of the compact elementary schools in Evansville, Indiana, one of the schools within Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, with 344 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 436.

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

Demographically, Harper Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 23% Black, 15% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Harper Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Vanderburgh County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, Harper Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.8%; this one delivers 38.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Vanderburgh County) logs that median household income runs about $61,648, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Vanderburgh County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students), of which Harper Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Joshua Academy, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harper Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 19.9%.

Harper Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Harper Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 344). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 55% to 49%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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