Fairview Elementary School

Fairview Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Dayton, Ohio, part of Dayton City. The school instructs 474 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Within Dayton City, which oversees 26 schools and 12,118 students, Fairview Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fairview Elementary School shows that 73% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 9% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household earnings sit near $66,139, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Fairview Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Richard Allen Preparatory, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairview Elementary School has climbed 6%, going from 446 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 85% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

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