Woodland Elementary School

Woodland Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Lafayette, Indiana, part of Tippecanoe School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 601 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 38% larger than typical.

Within Tippecanoe School Corp, which oversees 20 schools and 13,663 students, Woodland Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Woodland Elementary School shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 34% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Tippecanoe County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Woodland Elementary School reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Woodland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Tippecanoe County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Woodland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of +9.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Tippecanoe County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,636 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tippecanoe County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,655 students), of which Woodland Elementary School is one.

Wea Ridge Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodland Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodland Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 35.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodland Elementary School has decreased 7%, going from 643 students in 2018 to 601 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 53% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.