Fairbanks Elementary School

Fairbanks Elementary School is a primary school of average-sized scale in Milford Center, Ohio, part of Fairbanks Local, hosting 444 students in grades K through 5.

Fairbanks Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,079 students; Fairbanks Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Fairbanks Elementary School reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 2% multiracial. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Fairbanks Elementary School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 20% of students at Fairbanks Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Fairbanks Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.4%, the actual is 84.2%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Union County indicate the typical household earns roughly $112,322 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Union County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,597 students), of which Fairbanks Elementary School is one.

Fairbanks High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairbanks Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 78.3%.

Fairbanks Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 463 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Fairbanks Elementary School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.