North Vermillion High School

North Vermillion High School is a close-knit four-year high school in Cayuga, Indiana, overseen by North Vermillion Com Sch Corp. The school enrolls 364 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 816.

North Vermillion High School is one of 2 schools operated by North Vermillion Com Sch Corp, a district that educates 731 students overall.

Demographically, North Vermillion High School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Vermillion County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at North Vermillion High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, North Vermillion High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.6%; actual is 22.6%, a gap of -16.0 points.

Around the school, Vermillion County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,200 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. North Vermillion High School is one of 7 public schools in Vermillion County (combined enrollment of about 2,279 students).

The closest other public school is North Vermillion Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North Vermillion High School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 28.0%.

North Vermillion High School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. North Vermillion High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 364). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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