Perry Heights Middle School

Perry Heights Middle School is a tight-knit intermediate school in Evansville, Indiana, run under Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. The school instructs 471 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 21,589 students. Perry Heights Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Perry Heights Middle School logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Vanderburgh County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Perry Heights Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.8%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Vanderburgh County put 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%. Perry Heights Middle School is one of 44 public schools in Vanderburgh County (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Terrace Elementary School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Perry Heights Middle School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Perry Heights Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Perry Heights Middle School's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 496 (now 471).

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