Glen Acres Elementary School

Glen Acres Elementary School is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in Lafayette, Indiana, part of Lafayette School Corporation, with 550 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Glen Acres Elementary School sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.

Lafayette School Corporation runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,090 students. Glen Acres Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Glen Acres Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 28% White, 26% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Glen Acres Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Glen Acres Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at Glen Acres Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Tippecanoe County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, Glen Acres Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 38.7%, a residual of +10.9 points.

Across the wider county, Tippecanoe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,636 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Tippecanoe County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,655 students), Glen Acres Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Vinton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Glen Acres Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 18%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 550 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 18% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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