Fairfield Area MS

Set in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, Fairfield Area MS is a cozy middle school, run under Fairfield Area SD. It caters to 259 students across grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Fairfield Area MS sits 56% below that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Fairfield Area MS reports that nearly all students (94%) are White; the rest breaks down as 2% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Fairfield Area MS has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 33% 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%.

With demographic context factored in, Fairfield Area MS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.4%; this one comes in at 42.4%, -21.0 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Adams County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,092, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Adams County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students), of which Fairfield Area MS is one.

The closest other public school is Fairfield Area HS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fairfield Area MS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairfield Area MS has contracted 15%, going from 304 students in 2018 to 259 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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