Excel Center - Lafayette

Located at 615 N 18th St 2nd Floor, in Lafayette, Indiana, Excel Center - Lafayette is a small secondary school that educates 366 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Excel Center - Lafayette. That puts it 55% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 816 students.

Excel Center - Lafayette sits inside Excel Center - Lafayette, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Excel Center - Lafayette lists that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 28% Black, 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Tippecanoe County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Excel Center - Lafayette records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tippecanoe County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Tippecanoe County put median household income runs about $60,636, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Tippecanoe County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,655 students), of which Excel Center - Lafayette is one.

Murdock Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Excel Center - Lafayette.

The school occupies an inner-city site. Excel Center - Lafayette operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 22%: 299 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 in 2025.

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