Fairview MS

Set in Fairview, Pennsylvania, Fairview MS is a reasonably sized intermediate school, part of Fairview SD. It serves 633 students across grades 5 through 8.

Fairview SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,933 students. Fairview MS is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Fairview MS logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Erie County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Fairview MS has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at Fairview MS 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 south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Fairview MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 70.6%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Erie County) logs that median household income runs about $63,354, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Erie County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students), of which Fairview MS is one.

Fairview El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Fairview MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fairview MS at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 66.1%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 13%: 559 students in 2018 compared to 633 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 92% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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