Lafayette High School (Kentucky)

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Lafayette High School
Lafayette High School (Lexington, KY) in August 2019.jpg
Lafayette in August 2019
Address
Lafayette High School (Kentucky)
401 Reed Ln [1]

Lexington
,
Kentucky
40503

United States
Information
School type Public, High school
Founded1939 (1939)
School district Fayette County Public
NCES School ID210186000367
PrincipalAnthony Orr (2022)
Teaching staff123.10 FTE
(2021–22 AY)
Enrollment2,440 (2022–23 AY)
 •  Grade 9 28.24%
 •  Grade 10 25.57%
 •  Grade 11 24.63%
 •  Grade 12 21.39%
Student to teacher ratio19.65:1 (2021–22 AY)
Schedule type Block scheduling
Color(s)   
Blue, red, and white
Nickname Generals
ACT  average22 (2018–19 AY) [2]
NewspaperThe Lafayette Times [3]
Website lafayette.fcps.net
NW wing of Lafayette High School (Lexington, KY) in August 2019.jpg
Lafayette's northwest wing (August 2019)
Last updated: March 23, 2024

Lafayette High School is a public high school in Lexington, Kentucky that has been open for 85 years, seen the beginning of racially-desegregated education in the city, and been overseen by at least nine principals.

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History

Founded in 1939 to replace Picadome High School, Lafayette High School was built on the grounds of a former orphanage [3] with funding from the Works Progress Administration. The school was named for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; the French general's family gave the school permission to use their family coat of arms as a logo. [4] The school shared its property with a mansion—The Elms—until the latter burned down a few months into the first school year. In 1955, Lafayette was the first white school in Lexington to be racially integrated [3] when Helen Caise Wade (a student at Lexington's all-black Douglass High School) took a summer school course in US history. [5]

Dwight Price (born 1930or1931) was principal from 1972–87. [3] After its comprehensive 1998 building renovation, [4] Lafayette implemented block scheduling beginning with the 2000–01 academic year. [2] In 2012, the school received its eighth principal: Memphis, Tennessee-native and University of Kentucky graduate Bryne Jacobs (born 1978or1979). Jacobs previously worked at Lexington's Paul Laurence Dunbar High School from 2000–12, [3] and was still at Lafayette through at least the 2017–18 academic year. [3] Renovation of the school's stadium was completed in 2010. [4] The Lexington Herald-Leader reported in July 2022 that Anthony Orr, previously a superintendent of two Kentucky school districts, was the new Lafayette principal. [6] In 2023, Niche ranked Lafayette as the fifth-best public high school in Kentucky, based on seven different weighted metrics. [7]

Demographics

Lafayette is part of the Fayette County Public Schools school district. In the 2021–2022 academic year, 123.10 full-time equivalent teachers made the student-to-teacher ratio 19.65:1. That same year, of the student body,

Lafayette had 2,440 enrolled students across grades 9–12 in the 2022–23 academic year (689 freshmen, 624 sophomores, 601 juniors, and 522 seniors), which the Kentucky High School Athletic Association recorded as the largest enrollment of any high school in the state. [8]

Academics

As of the 2017–18 academic year, Lafayette offered two specialized programs for its students: the School for the Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) and the Pre-Engineering Program. SCAPA was "designed for students who excel in art, ballet, band, contemporary dance, creative writing, drama, piano, strings, and voice", and required an audition to be considered for the program. The latter offering was a program "designed to provide students with the skills needed to succeed in such mathematically rigorous and technical fields as engineering, architecture, medicine, computer programming, mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics." [2]

Extracurriculars

The Lafayette marching band was awarded The Sudler Shield by the John Philip Sousa Foundation in 1991 and 1998. [9]

Athletics

The Lafayette boys' basketball team won the Sweet Sixteen championship in 1942, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1979, and 2001. [10] The baseball team won the state championship in 1988, 1989, and 1992. [11] In 2016, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) audited the school and found Title IX discrepancies between the amenities offered to baseball players and softball players; to solve the problem, the school district outlaid US$2.5 million to build a field house, "new dugouts, a netted visiting hitting area, plus the resurfacing of Lafayette's track and football field." [12]

A member of the KHSAA since 1924, as of March 2024 that organization listed Lafayette with 19 official athletic programs: archery (boys' and girls'), baseball, basketball (boys' and girls'), bowling (boys' and girls'), cheerleading, competitive dance, esports, fastpitch softball, bass fishing (boys'), American football, golf (boys' and girls'), indoor track (boys' and girls'), lacrosse (boys' and girls), soccer (boys' and girls'), swimming (boys' and girls'), tennis (boys' and girls'), track and field (boys' and girls'), volleyball (girls'), and scholastic wrestling (boys' and girls'). The teams' colors are blue, red, and white, while the athletic nicknames are the "generals" for all gendered sports. [13]

Notable alumni

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