Lafayette School Corporation

What the Numbers Say About Lafayette School Corporation

Lafayette School Corporation is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Indiana, serving 7,430 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $16,116. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $66,323, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1805400 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Indiana statewide average of $62,627, teacher pay in Lafayette School Corporation runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 5.9% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (19.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Indiana, it pays more than 81% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, Lafayette School Corporation reports $119.7M in total expenditure against $123.1M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 27% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $22.3M, special-education teacher pay is $3.0M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.