$35,859, and the median income for a family was $45,480. Males had a median income of $32,892 versus $23,049 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,217. About 8.0% of families and 12.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.8% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over. Government The government consists of a mayor – elected in a citywide vote – and a city council of nine members. Six are elected from individual districts; three are elected at-large. Education Colleges Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana Purdue University (in West Lafayette) A campus of the Purdue Polytechnic Institute Public K-12 public education in Lafayette is provided by the Lafayette School Corporation. The Tippecanoe School Corporation also administers county schools nearby. New Community School was a tuition-free elementary charter school (sponsored by Ball State University) located on the north side of Lafayette that permanently closed at the end of 2016. Beacon Academy was a charter school that was located in West Lafayette and closed in 2018. Private Faith Christian School Lafayette Christian School Lafayette Central Catholic Jr/Sr High School Montessori School of Greater Lafayette St. Boniface Middle School St. Lawrence Catholic School St. Mary Cathedral Elementary School St. James Lutheran School Public library The Lafayette area has three branch locations of the Tippecanoe County Public Library: Downtown Library Wyandotte Branch West Lafayette Klondike Branch News and media Newspapers Journal & Courier. The newspaper, which serves the Greater Lafayette area, has its newsroom and offices located in downtown Lafayette. Journal & Courier also has its own printing services for itself and other papers in the region on the eastside of Lafayette. Purdue Exponent. Purdue University's independent student newspaper serves Purdue, West Lafayette, and Lafayette, and has its newsroom and offices located off campus on Northwestern Avenue in West Lafayette. The Lafayette Leader Television WPBI-LD 16 (Fox; NBC on LD2; ABC on LD3) WLFI-TV 18 (CBS; CW on DT2; ION on DT3; GetTV on DT4) WPBY-LD 35 (ABC; MeTV/MyNetworkTV on LD2) From 1953 until the 2016 launch of WPBI-LD, WLFI-TV had been the only "Big Three" (ABC, CBS and NBC—or, including Fox, "big four") commercial network television broadcaster in the Lafayette market. With the 2017 launch of WPBY-LD, local broadcasts of all "big four" networks became available. WRTV, WTHR, WTTV, and WXIN, the respective ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox affiliates in