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Alumni: what's one memory from Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
1,031
Middle
DISTRICT 1,015 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAFAYETTE SCHOOL CORPORATION·NCES 180540000974
Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate
530 N 26th St, Lafayette, IN 47904 · (765) 771-6100 · Tippecanoe County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,031 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of Indiana public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
677 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 534 | 52% |
| Grade 6 | 497 | 48% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Lafayette School Corporation. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
28.4%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
23.8%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.1%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate
Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate's state test result (28.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate this school | 1,031 | 65.7% | 28.4% |
| Highland Middle School Anderson | 916 | 67.0% | 15.3% |
| River Valley Middle School Jeffersonville | 857 | 64.5% | 31.2% |
| Lafayette Tecumseh Jr High School Lafayette | 999 | 62.1% | 25.6% |
| Decatur Middle School Indianapolis | 1,000 | 59.7% | 17.5% |
| Memorial Park Middle School Fort Wayne | 627 | 61.1% | 40.0% |
Matched among Indiana middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Tippecanoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #240 of 324 | #7 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.8% | #247 of 325 | #7 of 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #247 of 325 | #7 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,031 | #35 of 334 | #1 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #169 of 314 | #3 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #19 of 315 | #2 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.7% | #50 of 330 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #60 of 187 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,031
-97 (-9%) vs 2020
+26% since 1990-91, when it was 821
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,031 | 67.8 | 15.2:1 | 66% (677) |
| 2023-24 | 1,029 | 71.8 | 14.3:1 | 71% (727) |
| 2022-23 | 1,047 | 76.3 | 13.7:1 | 77% (808) |
| 2020-21 | 1,128 | 72 | 15.7:1 | 73% (819) |
| 2017-18 | 1,220 | 72 | 16.9:1 | 75% (921) |
| 2015-16 | 1,080 | 66 | 16.4:1 | 74% (803) |
| 2010-11 | 1,008 | 65 | 15.5:1 | 68% (686) |
| 2000-01 | 707 | 50 | 14.1:1 | 43% (301) |
| 1990-91 | 821 | 58 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate.
About Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate
Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate serves students in Lafayette, Indiana, as a large middle-grades school. The school had 1,031 students in grades 5 through 6 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (middle schools in Indiana) has about 594 students.
Across its 11 schools, Lafayette School Corporation enrolls 7,090 students. Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate is one of those schools.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate. The largest is White students, at 39%. The remaining students are 27% Hispanic, 25% Black, and 9% multiracial. Census figures show Tippecanoe County is about 74% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 67.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate was 15.2:1. That is close to the 15.6:1 average for middle schools in Indiana. Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 66%. On average, public schools in Tippecanoe County report 44%.
allk12 grades Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate a C+. The grade compares the school only with Indiana public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 29.1% for a school in Indiana with Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate's free or reduced-price lunch share. Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate posts 28.4%.
Across Tippecanoe County, the median household income is $60,636, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. In all, Tippecanoe County has 38 public schools and roughly 23,655 students.
The nearest other public school, Murdock Elementary School, is about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate ranks 6th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment is down 9% from 2020-21, when Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate had 1,128 students, to 2024-25, when it had 1,031.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate covering things like sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Tippecanoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
189,071
Census ACS
Median income
$60,636
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
23,655 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lafayette School Corporation
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,042 students
- Lafayette Tecumseh Jr High SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Glen Acres Elementary SchoolElementary · 550 students
- Amelia Earhart Elementary SchoolElementary · 455 students
- Edgelea Elementary SchoolElementary · 444 students
- Miami Elementary SchoolElementary · 442 students
Other schools in Lafayette
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,042 students
- McCutcheon High SchoolHigh · 1,835 students
- Lafayette Tecumseh Jr High SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Wea Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 675 students
- Wea Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 609 students
- Woodland Elementary SchoolElementary · 601 students
Nearby schools
- Murdock Elementary School0.3 mi · 230
- Excel Center - Lafayette0.4 mi · 366
- Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette0.6 mi · 193
- Oakland Elementary School0.8 mi · 192
- Vinton Elementary School1.1 mi · 387
- Glen Acres Elementary School1.5 mi · 550
Frequently asked questions
About Lafayette Sunnyside IntermediateWhat is the total enrollment at Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate?
Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate enrolls approximately 1,031 students in grades 05-06.
What age range does Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate serve?
Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate serves students from grade 05 through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate.
How diverse is Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate?
Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate reports a student body of 39% White, 27% Hispanic, 25% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate public or private?
Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lafayette School Corporation.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.