Fairview Elementary School

Fairview Elementary School is one of the modestly sized elementary campuss in Ashland, Kentucky, one of the schools within Fairview Independent, with 271 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 421.

Across the 2 schools in Fairview Independent (528 students total), Fairview Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Fairview Elementary School shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial. Compared to Boyd County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Boyd County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Fairview Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.2%; this one delivers 32.2%.

Around the school, census data for Boyd County shows median household income runs about $61,118, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Fairview Elementary School is one of 25 public schools in Boyd County (combined enrollment of about 6,634 students).

Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus B is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairview Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Fairview Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

Fairview Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 313 students in 2018 compared to 271 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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