Lafayette Elementary

Lafayette Elementary is one of the substantial elementary-level communitys in Fredericksburg, Virginia, one of the schools within Fredericksburg City Public Schools, with 812 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 63% above typical.

Lafayette Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Fredericksburg City Public Schools, a district that enrolls 3,629 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lafayette Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Black (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 25% White, 24% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 9% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Lafayette Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lafayette Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 54.0%.

Across the wider county, Fredericksburg city reports that median household earnings sit near $86,071, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Lafayette Elementary is one of 6 public schools in Fredericksburg city (combined enrollment of about 3,629 students).

Walker-Grant Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lafayette Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lafayette Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Lafayette Elementary's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 862 (now 812). Over the same period, the Asian share rose from 6% to 13%.

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