West Terrace Elementary School

West Terrace Elementary School, a moderately sized K-5 school in Evansville, Indiana, overseen by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, educates 504 students, covering grades K through 5.

West Terrace Elementary School is one of 38 schools operated by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, a district that educates 21,589 students overall.

Demographically, West Terrace Elementary School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 25% of students at West Terrace Elementary School qualify 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 below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Terrace Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Vanderburgh County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,648 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. West Terrace Elementary School is one of 44 public schools in Vanderburgh County (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students).

The closest other public school is Indiana Agriculture & Technology School - USI Campus, roughly 0.7 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, West Terrace Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. West Terrace Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 695 (now 504). Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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