Lakeland Jr/Sr High School

Lakeland Jr/Sr High School operates as a mid-tier 9-12 campus in LaGrange, Indiana, operated by Lakeland School Corporation. Current enrollment sits at 737 students spanning grades 7 through 12.

Lakeland Jr/Sr High School is one of 5 schools operated by Lakeland School Corporation, a district that caters to 1,492 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lakeland Jr/Sr High School records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 94% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lakeland Jr/Sr High School has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, LaGrange County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lakeland Jr/Sr High School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.8%; Lakeland Jr/Sr High School posts 23.5%, -16.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (LaGrange County) shows that median household income runs about $84,487, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across LaGrange County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,769 students), Lakeland Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Lakeland Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lakeland Jr/Sr High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 33%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 737 in 2025.

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