Joshua Academy

Joshua Academy operates as an intimate elementary-level community in Evansville, Indiana, overseen by Joshua Academy. Current enrollment sits at 254 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 42% below the state mean of about 436.

Joshua Academy is the operating authority for Joshua Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Joshua Academy lists that the largest single group is Black, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Joshua Academy logs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Vanderburgh County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Joshua Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 24.8%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Vanderburgh County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,648 per year, 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), Joshua Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Harper Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Joshua Academy at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 20.0%.

Joshua Academy operates from a city-core location. Joshua Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 36%: 187 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment increased from 68% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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