Mintonye Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary campus in Lafayette, Indiana, Mintonye Elementary School enrolls 452 students from grades K through 5, part of Tippecanoe School Corp.

Across the 20 schools in Tippecanoe School Corp (13,663 students total), Mintonye Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mintonye Elementary School reports that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder reads as 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Mintonye Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 29% of students at Mintonye Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tippecanoe County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mintonye Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Tippecanoe County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $60,636 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Mintonye Elementary School is one.

Southwestern Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Mintonye Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mintonye Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mintonye Elementary School has remained close to its prior level, going from 462 students in 2018 to 452 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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