NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in West Lafayette, IN

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7 public K-12 schools in West 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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7
Schools
6,668
Students
50.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, West Lafayette has more public-school enrollment than 67% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. West 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 West Lafayette's 7 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

West Lafayette's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 89th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 36th percentile. The 53-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 33%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
89th percentile
Teacher staffing
36th percentile

William Henry Harrison High School accounts for 32.9% of all West Lafayette public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means West 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

West Lafayette school enrollment varies 4.9× across entities

West Lafayette school enrollment ranges from 448 students (lowest) to 2,194 students (highest), a spread of 1,746 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

West Lafayette student-teacher ratio is 16.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 West Lafayette is typically wider than the West Lafayette-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School 61
2. Burnett Creek Elementary School 55
3. Klondike Middle School 52
4. William Henry Harrison High School 49
5. West Lafayette Elementary School 49
6. West Lafayette Intermediate School 49
7. Klondike Elementary School 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in West 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 West Lafayette Elementary School 68.3/100
  2. 2 West Lafayette Intermediate School 62.5/100
  3. 3 West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School 61.8/100
  4. 4 Klondike Elementary School 59.9/100
  5. 5 Burnett Creek Elementary School 58.4/100

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Which West Lafayette school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the West 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.

How many schools are in West Lafayette, IN? ▼

West Lafayette has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,668 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.7:1.

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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.