Stringtown Elementary School

Stringtown Elementary School operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in Evansville, Indiana, run under Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 313 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Stringtown Elementary School sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Stringtown Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black. By comparison, Vanderburgh County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Stringtown Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at Stringtown Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stringtown Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of -12.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Vanderburgh County put median household income runs about $61,648, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Stringtown Elementary School is one of 44 public schools in Vanderburgh County (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students).

The closest other public school is Central High School, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stringtown Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stringtown Elementary School has declined 29%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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