Summary:
ZIP code 47909 in the Lafayette, Indiana area contains exactly one middle school: Wea Ridge Middle School, a grades 6–8 school with 675 students (roughly 225 per grade) that belongs to Tippecanoe School Corp. With no other middle school in the ZIP to compare against, the most useful comparisons are how this school stacks up against its own district and against Indiana as a whole.
The big picture is a school that is improving but still trails its district. Its state rank has moved from the 43rd to the 50th to the 56th percentile over three years, and its star rating rose from 2 stars to 3 stars. Results split sharply by subject. Math proficiency climbed 6.7 points in one year (30.82% to 37.52%) while the district rose only 1.3 points, and 7th grade math (44.39%) matches the district and beats the state (35.9%) by about 8.5 points. 6th grade science (44.81%) also tops the state (41.2%). English language arts is the weak spot: 32.59% overall versus 51.44% in the district, trailing the state at every grade, with 8th grade ELA (29.25%) the largest gap. Chronic absenteeism of 11.8% is well below the state's 16.7%, though slightly above the district's 10.5%.
A few caveats matter. Just over half of students (50.07%) qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $10,749, and the student-teacher ratio is 16:1. Science slipped slightly year over year while the district improved — the only metric moving in the wrong direction. Note too that the district itself ranks 83rd of 374 Indiana districts (78th percentile, 4 stars), so a strong district profile can mask a more middling individual school. Only two years of test data are available, so the upward trend is encouraging but short.
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