Fairview El Sch

As a high-enrollment elementary school in Fairview, Pennsylvania, Fairview El Sch enrolls 707 students from grades K through 4, one of the schools within Fairview SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Fairview El Sch sits 60% larger than that benchmark.

Fairview SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,933 students; Fairview El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fairview El Sch shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Erie County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Fairview El Sch has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 26% of students at Fairview El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Erie County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fairview El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.5%; this one delivers 78.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Erie County shows median household income runs about $63,354, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Erie County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students), of which Fairview El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fairview MS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Fairview El Sch. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairview El Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 68.9%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 15%: 613 students in 2018 compared to 707 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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