Lafayette School

Lafayette School is one of the medium-sized primary schools in LINCOLN PARK, Michigan, one of the schools within Lincoln Park School District of the City of, with 441 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Lincoln Park School District of the City of comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,846 students; Lafayette School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lafayette School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 24% White, 16% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lafayette School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Lafayette School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Raupp School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lafayette School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lafayette School at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 30.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 536 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 10% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Lafayette School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.