24 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.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lafayette has more public-school enrollment than 89% 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.
15 of Lafayette's 24 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 5 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
The 42-point gap between Oakland Elementary School and Excel Center - Lafayette 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.
Lafayette school enrollment ranges from 192 students (lowest) to 2,042 students (highest), a spread of 1,850 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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
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 Variation between sub-units within Lafayette is typically wider than the Lafayette-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Oakland Elementary School | 61 |
| 2. | Hershey Elementary School | 60 |
| 3. | Vinton Elementary School | 51 |
| 4. | Murdock Elementary School | 51 |
| 5. | Mccutcheon High School | 50 |
| 6. | Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate | 50 |
| 7. | Wea Ridge Middle School | 50 |
| 8. | Southwestern Middle School | 50 |
| 9. | Edgelea Elementary School | 48 |
| 10. | Wyandotte Elementary | 47 |
| 11. | Amelia Earhart Elementary School | 47 |
| 12. | Lafayette Tecumseh Jr High School | 46 |
| 13. | James Cole Elementary School | 46 |
| 14. | Wainwright Middle School | 46 |
| 15. | Mintonye Elementary School | 44 |
| 16. | Glen Acres Elementary School | 43 |
| 17. | East Tipp Middle School | 43 |
| 18. | Jefferson High School | 42 |
| 19. | Thomas Miller Elementary School | 42 |
| 20. | Mayflower Mill Elementary School | 41 |
| 21. | Miami Elementary School | 41 |
| 22. | Wea Ridge Elementary School | 39 |
| 23. | Woodland Elementary School | 32 |
| 24. | Excel Center - Lafayette | 19 |
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.
Oakland Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lafayette schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Lafayette has 24 public schools with a total enrollment of 14,952 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.5:1.
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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.
