Fairfield Area El Sch

Set in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, Fairfield Area El Sch is a modestly sized primary school, one of the schools within Fairfield Area SD. It teaches 346 students across grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.

Fairfield Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 882 students; Fairfield Area El Sch is among them.

Demographically, Fairfield Area El Sch logs that nearly all students (95%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Fairfield Area El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fairfield Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.1%, the actual is 63.3%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Adams County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,092 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Adams County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students), Fairfield Area El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fairfield Area HS, around 0.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fairfield Area El Sch at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 46.8%.

Fairfield Area El Sch operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairfield Area El Sch has increased 5%, going from 329 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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