Amelia Earhart Elementary School

Amelia Earhart Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Lafayette, Indiana, one of the schools within Lafayette School Corporation. Current enrollment sits at 455 students spanning grades K through 4.

Lafayette School Corporation comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 7,090 students; Amelia Earhart Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Amelia Earhart Elementary School records that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 27% Hispanic, 22% Black, 12% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Amelia Earhart Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 55% of students at Amelia Earhart Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tippecanoe County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Amelia Earhart Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.0%.

Around the school, Tippecanoe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,636 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Amelia Earhart Elementary School is one of 38 public schools in Tippecanoe County (combined enrollment of about 23,655 students).

The closest other public school is Edgelea Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Amelia Earhart Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Amelia Earhart Elementary School has increased 8%, going from 421 students in 2018 to 455 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 51% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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