Benjamin Bosse High School

Benjamin Bosse High School, located at 1300 Washington Ave in Evansville, Indiana, is an alternative-type school serving 868 students in grades PK–12 as part of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, making it by far the largest of the district's three alternative programs.

Bosse's strongest result is its graduation rate: 84.6% in 2024–25, which is 43.2 points above Academy for Innovative Studies (41.4%) and 29.1 points above EVSC Virtual Academy (55.5%). That said, it sits 3.7 points below the district and 5.1 points below the state, though Bosse actually out-graduated its own district in three of the past five years. Attendance is the clearest concern. Chronic absenteeism stands at 40.6% — 1.89 times the district rate and 2.43 times the state rate — and has risen 8.2 points since 2021–22, while the state's rate fell 4.4 points over the same period. Bosse's rate is still the lowest of the three nearby schools, but that comparison says as much about the other two as it does about Bosse.

Test performance is weak in absolute terms. In 2025–26, Bosse students were 32.81% proficient in Biology, 26.14% in SAT EBRW, and 5.23% in SAT Math — roughly one in nineteen 11th graders proficient in math, the lowest of the three schools and only about 23% of the district's math proficiency. Math proficiency has never exceeded single digits across four years. Biology is the bright spot, improving about 19 points over three years. About 66.5% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and per-student spending was $12,916 in 2023–24.