Lafayette Elementary School

Lafayette Elementary School operates as a medium-sized primary school in LAFAYETTE, Colorado, part of Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. Current enrollment sits at 497 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 31% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Across the 56 schools in Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 (27,988 students total), Lafayette Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Lafayette Elementary School records that 72% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lafayette Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Lafayette Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Boulder County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lafayette Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.5%; this one delivers 58.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Boulder County put median household earnings sit near $103,994, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Lafayette Elementary School is one of 86 public schools in Boulder County (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students).

Pioneer Bilingual Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lafayette Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 496 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.