Fairdale Elementary

Fairdale Elementary, a sizable elementary campus in Fairdale, Kentucky, run under Jefferson County, works with 653 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 55% above the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Jefferson County runs 167 schools in total, collectively educating 95,124 students. Fairdale Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fairdale Elementary logs that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 40% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Fairdale Elementary logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, Fairdale Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which Fairdale Elementary is one.

Fairdale High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairdale Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 25.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairdale Elementary has edged up 14%, going from 575 students in 2018 to 653 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 26% to 40%.

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