Vogel Elementary School

Vogel Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school in Evansville, Indiana, operated by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. The school works with 484 students in grades K through 6.

Across the 38 schools in Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp (21,589 students total), Vogel Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Vogel Elementary School records that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Black, 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Vogel Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at Vogel Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Vogel Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Vanderburgh County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,648 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Vanderburgh County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students), of which Vogel Elementary School is one.

Harper Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 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), Vogel Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 20.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vogel Elementary School has contracted 25%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 484 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 80% to 70%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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