Lodge Community School

As a reasonably sized elementary school in Evansville, Indiana, Lodge Community School works with 510 students from grades K through 8, part of Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.

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

On demographics, Lodge Community School lists that the most-represented group is Black (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 23% Hispanic, 21% White, 11% multiracial, 10% Pacific Islander. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Vanderburgh County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lodge Community School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 30.6%; this one comes in at 8.2%, -22.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Vanderburgh County) logs that median household earnings sit near $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 Lodge Community School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fairlawn Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lodge Community School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 11.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Lodge Community School's enrollment has climbed 35% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 510). White enrollment moved from 29% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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