Francis Vigo Elementary School

Francis Vigo Elementary School is a PK–5 school at 1513 Main Street in Vincennes, Indiana, serving 314 students as part of Vincennes Community School Corp — one of four district elementaries and the only one in the group that also serves preschoolers. The school sits in the lower-middle of Indiana elementary schools and has for a decade, with statewide percentile ranks moving in a narrow band between the 15th and 40th percentile and a mild recovery from a 25th-percentile trough in 2022-23 to roughly 35th today; star ratings have cycled between 1 and 2, and it currently holds 2.

On the plus side, attendance is a genuine strength: chronic absenteeism was 11.3% in 2024-25, beating the district's 18.9% and the state's 16.7%, second-best among the four district elementaries (behind only Benjamin Franklin Elementary School) and down sharply from 17.1% two years earlier. Math is the relative bright spot, at 43.94% proficiency across all grades — above the district's 36.24% — and 5th-grade math at 47.62% beats both the district and the state. Class sizes are small, too, with a 12.6 student-teacher ratio, second-lowest of the four district schools.

Reading is where the school struggles. ELA proficiency is 24.24%, the lowest of any nearby school except Washington Intermediate, and the 19.7-point gap between math and reading is the widest in the local comparison group. Fourth-graders are 26 points more likely to be proficient in math (44.74%) than reading (18.42%) — same students, same year, same test. That pattern argues against ability, engagement or attendance as the cause, and poverty does not explain it either: Vigo's free/reduced lunch rate of 53.82% is second-lowest in its district group. Science (36.84%) and 5th-grade social studies (38.1%, up roughly 13.5 points in a year) are quietly steady. For parents, the takeaway is narrow and encouraging: this is a math-competitive school with a specific, targetable reading problem, worst in 4th grade.