Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School

Set in Fayetteville, Ohio, Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school, operated by Fayetteville-Perry Local. It educates 345 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in Fayetteville-Perry Local (712 students total), Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Brown County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.4%, the actual is 65.6%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Brown County put the typical household earns roughly $71,270 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Brown County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,534 students), of which Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fayetteville-Perry Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 368 students in 2018 compared to 345 in 2025.

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