Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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%.
About Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette
Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette is a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Lafayette, Indiana, part of Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette. The school educates 193 students in grades K through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 436.
Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette is a school of Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette records that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Black, 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tippecanoe County (around 44%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.4%; this one delivers 25.2%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tippecanoe County indicate median household income runs about $60,636, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette is one of 38 public schools in Tippecanoe County (combined enrollment of about 23,655 students).
Excel Center - Lafayette is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.4%.
Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, Paramount School of Excellence Lafayette runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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