Lafayette ES
Washington, DC · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Lafayette ES is a elementary school in Washington, DC with 892 students enrolled and a 54% proficiency rate. Part of District of Columbia Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Lafayette ES is a elementary school located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school serves 892 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 54% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
Lafayette ES is part of the District of Columbia Public Schools in District of Columbia.
How This School Compares
Lafayette ES has 892 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in District of Columbia Public Schools (432 students). Its 54% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points above the district average of 50%. Compared to the District of Columbia state average of 50%, the school performs 4 points higher. With a 14.6:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Lafayette ES has 892 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1.
According to EDFacts data, 54% of students at Lafayette ES meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Lafayette ES is part of the District of Columbia Public Schools in Washington, District of Columbia. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.