Fairfield High Preparatory School

Located at 610 Valley Rd, in Fairfield, Alabama, Fairfield High Preparatory School is a low-enrollment senior high that hosts 519 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Fairfield City. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 682.

Fairfield City runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,348 students. Fairfield High Preparatory School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fairfield High Preparatory School reports that nearly all students (94%) are Black. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Fairfield High Preparatory School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, Fairfield High Preparatory School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 22.7%; Fairfield High Preparatory School posts 3.4%, -19.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Fairfield High Preparatory School is one campus in the mix.

C J Donald Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fairfield High Preparatory School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairfield High Preparatory School has declined 33%, going from 769 students in 2018 to 519 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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