North Junior High School

As a sprawling 6-8 campus in Evansville, Indiana, North Junior High School works with 925 students from grades 7 through 8, overseen by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. Enrollment runs roughly 56% larger than the state mean of about 594.

North Junior High School is one of 38 schools operated by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, a district that instructs 21,589 students overall.

In terms of who attends, North Junior High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, North Junior High School has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at North Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -6.9 points.

Around the school, 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 roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. North Junior High School is one of 44 public schools in Vanderburgh County (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students).

The closest other public school is North High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Junior High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. North Junior High School's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 965 (now 925). Class-load math has widened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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