Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MENTOR EXEMPTED VILLAGE·NCES 390454902238
Fairfax Elementary School
6465 Curtiss Ct, Mentor, OH 44060 · (440) 255-7223 · Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
91 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 43%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
74.3%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.4pp since 2021
Math
69.5%
OH avg 56.1% . +3.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.3% | 69.5% |
| 2023-24 | 79.9% | 70.3% |
| 2022-23 | 70.1% | 64.3% |
| 2021-22 | 74.7% | 65.6% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
77.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fairfax Elementary School
Fairfax Elementary School's state test result (70.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfax Elementary School this school | 310 | 29.4% | 70.8% |
| Grant Elementary School Lakewood | 323 | 27.2% | 89.1% |
| Hayes Elementary School Lakewood | 292 | 29.8% | 82.6% |
| Woodland Elementary School Stow | 270 | 29.3% | 85.3% |
| Kean Elementary School Wooster | 313 | 29.7% | 76.1% |
| JOHNSTOWN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL Johnstown | 273 | 30.4% | 79.6% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fairfax Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.8% | #445 of 673 | #8 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.5% | #671 of 1,569 ▼ 58 | #13 of 25 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #457 of 1,569 ▼ 104 | #6 of 25 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.7pp | #876 of 1,514 | #10 of 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #1,238 of 1,808 | #21 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #524 of 1,582 | #13 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.9% | #906 of 1,590 | #18 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.4% | #530 of 767 | #14 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.3% | #956 of 992 | #17 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
310
-15 (-5%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 520
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 12.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 310 | 18.9 | 16.4:1 | 29% (91) |
| 2023-24 | 324 | 17.7 | 18.3:1 | 29% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 325 | 15.7 | 20.7:1 | 19% (61) |
| 2020-21 | 325 | 27 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 314 | 13 | 24.1:1 | 29% (91) |
| 2015-16 | 322 | 16 | 20.1:1 | 30% (95) |
| 2010-11 | 327 | 17 | 19.2:1 | 20% (66) |
| 2000-01 | 499 | 22 | 22.7:1 | 12% (60) |
| 1990-91 | 520 | 22 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fairfax Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (314 to 310); teachers up 46% (13 to 18.9).
About Fairfax Elementary School
Fairfax Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Mentor, Ohio, one of the schools in Mentor Exempted Village. The school has 310 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Ohio have about 404 students on average; enrollment here is 23% lower.
Mentor Exempted Village is the district for Fairfax Elementary School. It has 13 schools and 6,896 students.
Fairfax Elementary School is 83% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 7% multiracial, 5% Black, and 4% Hispanic. That is in line with Lake County, where about 86% of residents are White. The diversity index for Fairfax Elementary School is 31%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at Fairfax Elementary School totals 18.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.4:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Ohio average 17.9:1. Federal data show 29% of students (91) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Lake County is 39%.
Fairfax Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 70.8% and a predicted 77.7%.
The school is in Lake County, where median household income comes to about $80,925, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Lake County counts 65 public schools with about 27,899 students.
Fairfax Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Mentor High School Preschool, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of Fairfax Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 70.8% is below the 73.9% average for nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 5% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 16.4 students per teacher, compared with 12.0 in 2020-21.
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Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
232,216
Census ACS
Median income
$80,925
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
27,899 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mentor Exempted Village
- Mentor High SchoolHigh · 2,217 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 852 students
- Shore Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
- Hopkins Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Bellflower Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
Other schools in Mentor
- Mentor High SchoolHigh · 2,217 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 852 students
- Shore Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
- Hopkins Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Bellflower Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
Other Fairfax Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Fairfax Elementary. Fairfax Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Fairfax Elementary SchoolCleveland Heights, OH · 303 students
- Fairfax Elementary SchoolValley, AL · 689 students
- Fairfax ElementarySan Bernardino, CA · 359 students
- FAIRFAX ELEM.FAIRFAX, MO · 66 students
Nearby schools
- Mentor High School Preschool0.6 mi · 38
- Mentor High School0.6 mi · 2,217
- Orchard Hollow Elementary School1.3 mi · 359
- Bellflower Elementary School1.4 mi · 465
- Shore Middle School1.5 mi · 752
- Lake Elementary School1.6 mi · 272
Frequently asked questions
About Fairfax Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fairfax Elementary School?
Fairfax Elementary School enrolls approximately 310 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Fairfax Elementary School serve?
Fairfax Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Fairfax Elementary School have?
Fairfax Elementary School employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
How diverse is Fairfax Elementary School?
Fairfax Elementary School reports a student body of 83% White, 4% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Fairfax Elementary School?
Fairfax Elementary School is overseen by Mentor Exempted Village in Lake County.
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