Fairfield Elementary

Fairfield Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Virginia Beach, Virginia, part of Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 478 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 64,731 students. Fairfield Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fairfield Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 18% Black, 17% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 8% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

In terms of school funding signals, Fairfield Elementary logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Virginia Beach city runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Fairfield Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.9%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Virginia Beach city put median household earnings sit near $92,968, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Virginia Beach city's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), Fairfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Arrowhead Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fairfield Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Fairfield Elementary's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 478). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 7% to 17%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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