West Lafayette Early Childcare Gap Analysis
Prepared for the City of West Lafayette Redevelopment Commission in 2024
In late 2023, the City of West Lafayette Redevelopment Commission contracted with APA Consulting to conduct an early childhood education (ECE) gap analysis. This research project had several sections:
A review of the effective policies and practices,
Gap analysis and community needs assessment with a description of current slots, unmet slots, and costs to meet that need,
Site analysis using GIS, and
Cost model.
This study was conducted in cooperation with the West Lafayette School and Tippecanoe County School Corporations. A key support provided by the school corporations was the distribution of a survey to parents of students attending several elementary schools in the greater West Lafayette region. The schools surveyed were West Lafayette, Klondike, Burnette Creek, and Battleground Elementaries.