Fairbanks High School

Set in Milford Center, Ohio, Fairbanks High School is a low-enrollment secondary school, one of the schools within Fairbanks Local. It works with 390 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Fairbanks High School sits 31% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Fairbanks Local (1,079 students total), Fairbanks High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fairbanks High School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Fairbanks High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 81.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Union County indicate median household earnings sit near $112,322, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Union County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,597 students), Fairbanks High School is one campus in the mix.

Fairbanks Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 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 High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 78.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Fairbanks High School's enrollment has ticked up 13% since 2018, when it stood at 346 (now 390). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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