Fairfield Court Elementary

As a tight-knit elementary campus in Richmond, Virginia, Fairfield Court Elementary instructs 222 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Richmond City Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Fairfield Court Elementary sits 56% below that benchmark.

Across the 47 schools in Richmond City Public Schools (20,962 students total), Fairfield Court Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Fairfield Court Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, On paper, Fairfield Court Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Fairfield Court Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Fairfield Court Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Fairfield Court Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.0%; Fairfield Court Elementary posts 37.4%, -23.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Richmond city shows the typical household earns roughly $64,587 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Richmond city's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students), Fairfield Court Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Armstrong High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairfield Court Elementary. On composite proficiency, Fairfield Court Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairfield Court Elementary has decreased 53%, going from 472 students in 2018 to 222 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 88% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.