East Fairmont High School

East Fairmont High School is one of the average-sized senior highs in Fairmont, West Virginia, operated by Marion County Schools, with 725 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Marion County Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 7,112 students. East Fairmont High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, East Fairmont High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder comes out to 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

In the broader community, census data for Marion County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,370 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. East Fairmont High School is one of 21 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 7,112 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pleasant Valley Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 733 students in 2018 compared to 725 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the East Fairmont High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.