Fairview Elem School

Fairview Elem School is one of the compact elementary campuss in Springfield, Illinois, overseen by Springfield SD 186, with 302 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Springfield SD 186 runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 13,014 students. Fairview Elem School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Fairview Elem School shows that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 38% White, 16% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Sangamon County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Fairview Elem School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Fairview Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sangamon County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fairview Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 21.5%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sangamon County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,357 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Fairview Elem School is one of 77 public schools in Sangamon County (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students).

The closest other public school is Wilcox Elem School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairview Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fairview Elem School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 22.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 21%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 302 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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