FAIRVIEW INTERMEDIATE

Located at 7053 EMMA, in JENNINGS, Missouri, FAIRVIEW INTERMEDIATE is an one-room-style middle school that hosts 134 students (grades 4 through 6), run under JENNINGS. That puts it 71% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

Within JENNINGS, which oversees 7 schools and 2,269 students, FAIRVIEW INTERMEDIATE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, FAIRVIEW INTERMEDIATE logs that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, FAIRVIEW INTERMEDIATE lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, FAIRVIEW INTERMEDIATE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. FAIRVIEW INTERMEDIATE is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

The closest other public school is FAIRVIEW PRIMARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FAIRVIEW INTERMEDIATE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 167 students in 2018 compared to 134 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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