Tekoppel Elementary School

Tekoppel Elementary School operates as a mid-sized primary school in Evansville, Indiana, overseen by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 440 students spanning grades K through 5.

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 21,589 students; Tekoppel Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Tekoppel Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 16% Black, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Vanderburgh County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Tekoppel Elementary School records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Vanderburgh County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Tekoppel Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Vanderburgh County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,648, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Tekoppel Elementary School is one of 44 public schools in Vanderburgh County (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students).

The closest other public school is Francis Joseph Reitz High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 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), Tekoppel Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 35.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tekoppel Elementary School has shrank 11%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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