Fairland High School

Fairland High School operates as an intimate high school in Proctorville, Ohio, one of the schools within Fairland Local. Current enrollment sits at 359 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 36% leaner than the state mean of about 565.

Within Fairland Local, which oversees 4 schools and 1,298 students, Fairland High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Fairland High School lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Fairland High School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Lawrence County put the typical household earns roughly $58,325 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Lawrence County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,980 students), Fairland High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fairland West Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Fairland High School operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.