Fayette Jr/Sr High School

Located at 400 E Gamble Rd, in Fayette, Ohio, Fayette Jr/Sr High School is a rural-scale senior high that hosts 109 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within Fayette Local. That puts it 81% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Fayette Local runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 328 students. Fayette Jr/Sr High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Fayette Jr/Sr High School records that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Fayette Jr/Sr High School logs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Fayette Jr/Sr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fayette Jr/Sr High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 69.1%; this one comes in at 47.2%, -21.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Fulton County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,864, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fulton County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,935 students), of which Fayette Jr/Sr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fayette Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fayette Jr/Sr High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 74.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fayette Jr/Sr High School has contracted 38%, going from 176 students in 2018 to 109 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 75% to 85%. Class-load math has fell: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 6.8:1 in 2025.

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