Thompkins Middle School

As a mid-sized middle-grades school in Evansville, Indiana, Thompkins Middle School enrolls 622 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.

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

On the student-mix side, Thompkins Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 80%. Beyond that, the school shows 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 44% of students at Thompkins Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Thompkins Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Vanderburgh County shows median household income runs about $61,648, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Vanderburgh County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students), Thompkins Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Central High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thompkins Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thompkins Middle School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 24.6%.

Thompkins Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thompkins Middle School has contracted 12%, going from 709 students in 2018 to 622 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 86% to 80% over that span.

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