West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School
West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School is the only high school within the West Lafayette city limits, and is administered by the West Lafayette Community School Corporation.
The school district which this school belongs to covers central portions of West Lafayette municipality.
West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School was constructed in 1939 of cream brick and glass at a cost of $225,000, and was remodeled in the late 1990s. The school is located near Purdue University, and the children of many Purdue faculty and staff attend West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School. In 2012, the school was ranked as the 2nd and 4th best public high school in Indiana by U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek, respectively. As of 2021, the high school was ranked in U.S. News & World Report as 2nd in Indiana and 239th nationwide.
Students at West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School exhibit strong performance in academics, demonstrating an average of 63% for mathematic proficiency and 73% on average for reading proficiency as of 2021.
Athletics
The school offers athletic programs including football, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, soccer, wrestling, golf, track and field, swimming, tennis and volleyball. The teams play under the nickname of the Red Devils and belong to the Hoosier Athletic Conference. The Red Devils have won 7 state championships.| Sport | Year |
| Girls Basketball ' | 1998 |
| Boys Cross Country ' | 1964, 2014 |
| Football ' | 1993, 2009, 2018 |
| Girls Soccer ' | 2013 |
Notable alumni
- Sonia Y. Angell, public health leader
- Moungi Bawendi, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and professor at MIT
- Katie Bouman, imaging scientist
- Greg Christopher, athletic director
- Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel
- Paul Eremenko, innovator and technology executive
- Bob Friend, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates
- Gen Fukunaga, founder of Funimation Entertainment
- George Karlaftis, NFL football player
- Tom Kelly, songwriter
- Joseph Lee, actor
- Philip Low, chemist
- Jay McDowell, bassist for country music band BR549
- Gavin Mikhail, singer-songwriter
- Sameer Mishra, won the 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee
- Tom Moore, director
- Toby Moskowitz, financial economist
- Chike Okeafor, NFL football player
- Eric Rodwell, professional bridge player
- Brian M. Rosenthal, investigative reporter
- Carolyn Wood Sherif, social psychologist
- Janet Tobias, television producer
- Randy Truitt, member of the Indiana House of Representatives
- Dan Wodicka, winner of the 2009 Mr. Football Award (Indiana) and Johns Hopkins Blue Jays Football head coach