LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH

Located at 17050 CLAYTON RD, in WILDWOOD, Missouri, LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH is an expansive senior high that instructs 1,669 students (grades 9 through 12), run under ROCKWOOD R-VI. Enrollment runs roughly 233% above the state mean of about 501.

ROCKWOOD R-VI runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 19,597 students. LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH lists that 71% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 11% Asian, 9% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH logs 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 57.6%, a residual of +6.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

BABLER ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 52.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAFAYETTE SR. HIGH has contracted 8%, going from 1,816 students in 2018 to 1,669 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 76% to 71% over that span.

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