Blanche E Fuqua Elementary School

Blanche E Fuqua Elementary School is a PK–5 public school at 1111 Wheeler Ave in Terre Haute, Indiana, serving 354 students as part of Vigo County School Corp, a district that ranks in the bottom third of Indiana school districts.

On the 2025-26 state rankings, Blanche E Fuqua placed 730th of 1,015 Indiana elementary schools — the 28th percentile, with 1 star — almost exactly matching its district's standing. That placement has been remarkably stable: the school has landed between the 23rd and 33rd percentile in eight of the last ten years. The one exception was 2021-22, when it jumped to the 48th percentile and 2 stars, before falling back to the 25th and 28th percentiles. In 2025-26 ILEARN results, 27.03% of students were proficient in English/language arts, 35.14% in math, and 28.57% in science. Math has met or beaten the district average in three of four years, while ELA has trailed it in all four, though ELA has improved 9 points over two years. Compared with nearby schools serving similar populations, the school roughly doubles the proficiency of Farrington Grove Elementary School (10.56% ELA), Davis Park Elementary School (13.89%), and Benjamin Franklin Elementary School (12.11%), all of which have higher poverty rates. Terre Town Elementary School, with nearly identical poverty and absenteeism, holds a small 2-to-6-point edge in ELA and science — the closest like-for-like benchmark.

The school's clearest strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism has fallen to 22.1% from 27.3% three years ago, tied for best among the district's high-poverty schools and below the district's 27.4%, though still above Indiana's 16.7%. Class sizes are small at 13.3 students per teacher, improved from 15.4:1. The main areas to watch are ELA, below the state in all three tested grades, and math, which slides from 41.67% in 3rd grade to 26.09% in 5th.