Lafayette El Sch

Lafayette El Sch operates as a small elementary-level community in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, part of Uniontown Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 283 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 36% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Lafayette El Sch is one of 9 schools operated by Uniontown Area SD, a district that works with 2,485 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Lafayette El Sch shows that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 39% Black, 13% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Lafayette El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Fayette County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,236 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Fayette County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students), Lafayette El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Lafayette MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lafayette El Sch. On composite proficiency, Lafayette El Sch comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lafayette El Sch has contracted 9%, going from 310 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 35% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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