Lafayette High School

Size

Lafayette High School is the smallest of St. Joseph School District's 3 high schools; its 644 students are 6.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 11 miles away with a median enrollment of 335; Lafayette High School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 10 with 169 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 149, against an average of 161 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 160 in grade 9 and 149 in grade 12.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 64.4% here and 62% across St. Joseph. Two or more races students are next, at 12.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.4% across St. Joseph and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 30.1% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 52.93 full-time-equivalent teachers for 644 students, Lafayette High School has 12.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 644 students would have about 52.8 teachers, so Lafayette High School has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

Location

Lafayette High School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other high school is Central High School, 1.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 3 other high schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.