Fairview Elementary

Located at 648 Westwood Blvd NW, in Roanoke, Virginia, Fairview Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that hosts 479 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Roanoke City Public Schools.

Within Roanoke City Public Schools, which oversees 24 schools and 13,811 students, Fairview Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Fairview Elementary logs that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic, 14% White, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Fairview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Fairview Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.0%; this one delivers 53.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Roanoke city put the typical household earns roughly $55,378 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Roanoke city's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,392 students), Fairview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Westside Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairview Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairview Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairview Elementary has decreased 14%, going from 556 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 71% to 54%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.