📍 "71 F.D. ""Buddy"" East Parkway", Oxford, Lafayette County, 38655
Lafayette Elementary School is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Oxford, Lafayette County. The school has 734 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Lafayette Co School Dist school district. It serves grades Pre-K–2 in a small-town setting. The school employs 62.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 11.8:1. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Lafayette Elementary School enrolls 734 students across grades Pre-K–2. The student body is 49% male and 51% female. A teaching staff of 62.4 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 11.8:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 75% White, 18% Black or African American and 3.5% Two or more races.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| White | 552 | 75% |
| Black or African American | 132 | 18% |
| Two or more races | 26 | 3.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 21 | 2.9% |
| Asian | 3 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
731 of the school's 734 students (100%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 368 qualify for free lunch and 363 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Lafayette Elementary School is located in a small-town setting (NCES locale: Town, Remote). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district MS-10, state senate district 9, state house district 13.
Lafayette Elementary School is one of 5 schools in Lafayette County, based in Oxford, Mississippi. The district serves 2,854 students district-wide and employs 224 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 734 students, Lafayette Elementary School is larger than the district average of about 571 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Town - Remote
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