Foxfire Intermediate School

Foxfire Intermediate School is a K-5 school of one-room-style scale in Zanesville, Ohio, one of the schools within Foxfire Intermediate School, teacheing 124 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Foxfire Intermediate School sits 69% smaller than that benchmark.

Foxfire Intermediate School sits inside Foxfire Intermediate School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Foxfire Intermediate School records that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 21% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Muskingum County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Foxfire Intermediate School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Muskingum County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $60,780 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Foxfire Intermediate School is one of 33 public schools in Muskingum County (combined enrollment of about 14,311 students).

The closest other public school is Foxfire High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area. As a public charter, Foxfire Intermediate School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 328%: 29 students in 2018 compared to 124 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 0% to 5% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

On this page, members of the Foxfire Intermediate School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.