21 public K-12 schools in Terre Haute from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Terre Haute has more public-school enrollment than 83% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Terre Haute sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
14 of Terre Haute's 21 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
The 45-point gap between Booker T Washington Alt Sch and Terre Town Elementary School shows the range hidden by Terre Haute's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Terre Haute school enrollment ranges from 62 students (lowest) to 1,544 students (highest), a spread of 1,482 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Terre Haute's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Booker T Washington Alt Sch | 69 |
| 2. | Honey Creek Middle School | 49 |
| 3. | Lost Creek Elementary School | 45 |
| 4. | Dixie Bee Elementary School | 43 |
| 5. | Rio Grande Elementary School | 43 |
| 6. | Hoosier Prairie Elementary School | 41 |
| 7. | Terre Haute South Vigo High School | 40 |
| 8. | Terre Haute North Vigo High School | 40 |
| 9. | Otter Creek Middle School | 40 |
| 10. | Woodrow Wilson Middle School | 39 |
| 11. | Sarah Scott Middle School | 37 |
| 12. | Davis Park Elementary School | 37 |
| 13. | Deming Early Learning Center | 37 |
| 14. | Adelaide De Vaney Elementary Sch | 34 |
| 15. | Blanche E Fuqua Elementary School | 32 |
| 16. | Sugar Grove Elementary School | 30 |
| 17. | Ouabache Elementary School | 29 |
| 18. | Vigo Virtual School Academy | 29 |
| 19. | Farrington Grove Elementary School | 27 |
| 20. | Benjamin Franklin Elem School | 25 |
| 21. | Terre Town Elementary School | 24 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Booker T Washington Alt Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Terre Haute schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Terre Haute has 21 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,196 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.9:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
