Best Public Schools in Zip Code 47906

ZIP code 47906 contains 8 schools — 3 elementary, 3 middle, and 2 high schools — with a combined enrollment of 7,380 students, split between Tippecanoe School Corp (5 schools, 5,037 students) and West Lafayette Com School Corp (3 schools, 2,343 students). Note that West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School serves grades 7–12 and is classified as a high school, while West Lafayette Intermediate School serves grades 4–6 and is classified as a middle school, so the level labels are not perfectly parallel between the two districts.

Several schools stand out. West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School ranks 5 of 415 statewide with 5 stars, and its SAT scores sit far above state averages. Burnett Creek Elementary School earns 5 stars despite the ZIP's lowest per-student spending ($9,287), while West Lafayette Elementary School posts the highest math proficiency (88.27) and the lowest student-teacher ratio (14.1). Battle Ground Middle School improved from 4 stars to 5 stars, and William Henry Harrison High School, the largest school at 2,194 students, has held 5 stars for three years.

Across the ZIP, average chronic absenteeism is about 10.7%, below the state's 16.7%, ranging from 4.0% at West Lafayette Intermediate to 27.7% at West Lafayette Jr/Sr — the only school above the state rate. West Lafayette Com School Corp spends roughly 36% more per student than the Tippecanoe schools here and averages smaller classes. Every state-benchmarked test score in this ZIP exceeds the Indiana average, though middle-school math trails ELA at Battle Ground and Klondike Middle School, and the two high schools are trending in different directions on SAT Math and Biology.