Lafayette Park Elementary School

Lafayette Park Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Kokomo, Indiana, overseen by Kokomo School Corporation, with 527 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% bigger than the state mean of about 436.

Within Kokomo School Corporation, which oversees 13 schools and 5,197 students, Lafayette Park Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Lafayette Park Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest reads as 18% multiracial, 16% Black, 9% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Howard County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lafayette Park Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Howard County) logs that median household income runs about $64,027, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Howard County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,786 students), Lafayette Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Pettit Park School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lafayette Park Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Lafayette Park Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lafayette Park Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 518 (now 527). The White share of enrollment shrank from 70% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Lafayette Park Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.