Fairfield Area HS

Located at 4840 Fairfield Rd, in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, Fairfield Area HS is a tiny high school that instructs 277 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Fairfield Area SD. That puts it 62% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

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

Demographically, Fairfield Area HS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Fairfield Area HS records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Adams County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Fairfield Area HS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 66.9%; actual is 43.9%, a gap of -23.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Adams County put median household income runs about $84,092, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Adams County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students), Fairfield Area HS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fairfield Area MS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fairfield Area HS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Fairfield Area HS's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 277). Class-load math has fell: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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