Summary:
ZIP code 40503 has one high school, Lafayette High School, serving grades 9–12 with 2,370 students in Fayette County. In 2025–2026, its average across six reported subjects was 60%, compared with 44% for the district and 39% statewide. The school was above both comparison groups in every subject, making its consistently stronger-than-district and stronger-than-state results the area’s most important finding.
Lafayette is the only local school, so it is both the area’s highest and lowest by default; the strongest and weakest results are within the school’s subjects. Reading was highest at 69%, while science was lowest at 45%; these are different grades and subjects. Relative to Kentucky, social studies stood out most: 63% proficient, 26 percentage points above the state. Writing was the narrowest state lead at 62%, or 15 points higher. SchoolDigger gives the school five stars and ranks it 8th of 262 Kentucky high schools, in the 97th percentile. Strong achievement sits alongside higher chronic absenteeism: 36% at the school, versus 25% in the district and 24% statewide. Its graduation rate was 98%, above the district’s 94% and the state’s 94%.
Results improved in all six subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with the largest increase in writing: 13 percentage points, from 49% to 62%; gains in other subjects ranged from 3 to 7 points. The six-subject average rose by 6 points, and the state-average lead widened from 15 to 21 points. SchoolDigger ranked Lafayette 14th of 290 in 2023–2024 and 21st of 254 in 2024–2025 before its latest 8th-place ranking. The student-teacher ratio was 18.7 in 2024–2025, and 33% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these are context about the school, not explanations of its results. Because there is only one school in the area, school-to-school comparisons are not available.
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