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Fairfield High School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 69% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fairfield High School
Fairfield High School is a four-year high school of sizable scale in Fairfield, Ohio, run under Fairfield City, caters to 2,255 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 299% larger than typical.
Fairfield High School is one of 10 schools operated by Fairfield City, a district that serves 9,591 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Fairfield High School records that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 22% Black, 17% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.5:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Butler County's rate of about 42%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fairfield High School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 68.9%; Fairfield High School posts 54.3%, -14.6 points below that line.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Butler County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,590 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Butler County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students), of which Fairfield High School is one.
Fairfield Freshman High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fairfield High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 67.7%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. Fairfield High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 2,279 (now 2,255). White enrollment moved from 62% to 49% across the same window.
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Butler County at a glance
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