High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Lafayette High, St Joseph, MO
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 644
- Teachers (FTE)
- 52.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.4
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 13.0. The Missouri average across schools is 13.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 412 Highland Ave, St Joseph, MO 64505
- Phone
- (816)671-4220
- District
- St. Joseph School District
- County
- Buchanan County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 292706001660
School meals
- Free lunch
- 644
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 644100.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 194Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in St. Joseph School District
- Central High 1,733 students
- Benton High 682 students
- Hillyard Technical Ctr. 0 students
High schools elsewhere in St Joseph
- Riverbend Treatment Ctr. Division of Youth Service
- Western Recept/Diag Corr Centr Department of Corrections
- Western Region Treatment Centr Department of Corrections
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.