Fairfield Local High School

Located at 11611 State Route 771, in Leesburg, Ohio, Fairfield Local High School is a very small senior high that instructs 222 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Fairfield Local. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 61% leaner than typical.

Fairfield Local runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 850 students. Fairfield Local High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Fairfield Local High School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Highland County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Highland County) reports that median household earnings sit near $65,785, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Highland County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,468 students), of which Fairfield Local High School is one.

The closest other public school is Fairfield Local Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Fairfield Local High School.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairfield Local High School has ticked down 8%, going from 242 students in 2018 to 222 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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