Lafayette High School

Lafayette High School is a four-year high school of one-room-style scale in Lafayette, Alabama, operated by Chambers County, teacheing 182 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Lafayette High School sits 73% smaller than that benchmark.

Lafayette High School is one of 9 schools operated by Chambers County, a district that educates 3,203 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lafayette High School records that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 15% White, 2% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Chambers County's rate of about 61%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lafayette High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 10.3%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Chambers County shows median household income runs about $49,656, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chambers County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,174 students), of which Lafayette High School is one.

The closest other public school is John P Powell Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lafayette High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 182 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 88% to 81%.

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