Fairwood Alternative Elementary School

Fairwood Alternative Elementary School is a cozy elementary campus in Columbus, Ohio, one of the schools within Columbus City Schools District. The school works with 202 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 50% smaller than typical.

Columbus City Schools District runs 115 schools in total, collectively educating 46,249 students. Fairwood Alternative Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Fairwood Alternative Elementary School logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder is composed of 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, Franklin County reports that median household earnings sit near $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Fairwood Alternative Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Capital Collegiate Preparatory Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairwood Alternative Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairwood Alternative Elementary School has fell 40%, going from 334 students in 2018 to 202 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 13% to 5%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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