Fairview El Sch

Fairview El Sch operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, overseen by Waynesboro Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 597 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Fairview El Sch sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.

Waynesboro Area SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,090 students; Fairview El Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Fairview El Sch logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 10% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Fairview El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fairview El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.1%; this one delivers 50.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,003 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Fairview El Sch is one of 41 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students).

Waynesboro Area Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fairview El Sch comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairview El Sch has shrank 16%, going from 710 students in 2018 to 597 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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