West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School

West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School operates as a medium-sized 9-12 campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, one of the schools within West Lafayette Com School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 1,116 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 816 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.

West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School is one of 3 schools operated by West Lafayette Com School Corp, a district that works with 2,343 students overall.

On demographics, West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School lists that 55% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 25% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, The school employs 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Tippecanoe County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.0%; this one delivers 62.8%.

Around the school, Tippecanoe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,636 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Tippecanoe County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,655 students), West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

West Lafayette Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School. On composite proficiency, West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School has changed only slightly, going from 1,129 students in 2018 to 1,116 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 61% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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