Fairland West Elementary School

Fairland West Elementary School, a close-knit elementary campus in Proctorville, Ohio, overseen by Fairland Local, works with 306 students, covering grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 24% leaner than typical.

Fairland Local runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,298 students. Fairland West Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fairland West Elementary School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lawrence County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $58,325 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Lawrence County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,980 students), Fairland West Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Fairland High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Fairland West Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 374 (now 306). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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