Terre Town Elementary School

Terre Town Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Terre Haute, Indiana, run under Vigo County School Corp, with 553 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 27% larger than typical.

Vigo County School Corp comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 13,277 students; Terre Town Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Terre Town Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest reads as 9% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Vigo County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Terre Town Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 84% of students at Terre Town Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Vigo County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Terre Town Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 15.9%; actual is 30.6%, +14.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Vigo County shows median household income runs about $52,976, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Terre Town Elementary School is one of 28 public schools in Vigo County (combined enrollment of about 13,416 students).

Nearest neighbor: Otter Creek Middle School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Terre Town Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Terre Town Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

Terre Town Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Terre Town Elementary School has decreased 14%, going from 641 students in 2018 to 553 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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