NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Lafayette, CA

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6 public K-12 schools in Lafayette from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
4,483
Students
37.3/100
Avg Resource Index
22.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lafayette has more public-school enrollment than 50% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lafayette 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Lafayette's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 21-point gap between M. H. Stanley Middle and Lafayette Elementary shows the range hidden by Lafayette'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.

City enrollment
Top 50%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
34th percentile
Teacher staffing
7th percentile

Acalanes High accounts for 28.0% of all Lafayette public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lafayette-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lafayette school enrollment varies 2.7× across entities

Lafayette school enrollment ranges from 463 students (lowest) to 1,256 students (highest), a spread of 793 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Lafayette student-teacher ratio is 22.3:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. M. H. Stanley Middle 49
2. Burton Valley Elementary 42
3. Acalanes High 38
4. Springhill Elementary 34
5. Happy Valley Elementary 33
6. Lafayette Elementary 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lafayette

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.

  1. 1 Springhill Elementary 68.9/100
  2. 2 Lafayette Elementary 68.8/100
  3. 3 Burton Valley Elementary 65.8/100
  4. 4 M. H. Stanley Middle 61.6/100
  5. 5 Happy Valley Elementary 61.0/100

What do families ask about schools in Lafayette?

Which Lafayette school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

M. H. Stanley Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lafayette schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lafayette, CA? ▼

Lafayette has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,483 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.3:1.

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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.