Lafayette Elementary School

Has been a positive experience for my kids thus far.

Very stressful. Make sure your kid is at grade level before he starts the grade.

The school has no gifted and talented program. They allow classroom teachers to determine whether a child should be receiving enriched learning activities. Many times these activities are nothing more that a child sitting at a computer working alone. Administration only gives lip service to the idea of creating challenging curriculum for the highly able child. If you have a child who needs enriched and accelerated programming find another school/district .

Not sure there could be more incompetence in the leadership of this school, not only is the principal cold per previous review, she is also a pawn/play toy of many of the parents who exert and peddle influence behind the scenes. Compared to other principals at superior elementary schools in close by suburbs, she is woefully inadequate. Curriculum was not very challenging for our children, far below the higher standards seen in other near by suburbs where higher level education is demanded and parents play a more active role in actual parenting. Teachers at Lafayette exhibited incompetence, laziness, aloofness, and obliviousness to the bullying as the teachers would rather ignore and not discipline ill behaved kids at the school. Do your homework here.

LAFAYETTE is a fantastic school with caring teachers and staff, smart enthusiastic students, and supportive families.