Lafayette Preparatory Academy

Size

Lafayette Preparatory Academy is the only school in Lafayette Preparatory Academy, so its 414 students are the district's whole enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 189; Lafayette Preparatory Academy is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 5 with 51 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 2, against an average of 41 per grade. This year grade 8 has 28% fewer students than kindergarten (34 against 47). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 2 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 52.7% here and 66.9% across Missouri public schools. Black students are next, at 36.2%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

24.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 16.2% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

With 35 full-time-equivalent teachers for 414 students, Lafayette Preparatory Academy has 11.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 414 students would have about 33.7 teachers, so Lafayette Preparatory Academy has 1.3 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

Lafayette Preparatory Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is KIPP Wisdom Academy, 0.4 miles away in KIPP St Louis Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 112 other elementary schools, 59 of them within 5 miles.

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