NCES CCD 2024-25 15 schools CT

Best-Resourced Schools in Fairfield, CT

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15 public K-12 schools in Fairfield from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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15
Schools
8,419
Students
65.2/100
Avg Resource Index
11.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fairfield has more public-school enrollment than 75% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fairfield lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

10 of Fairfield's 15 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Fairfield's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 99th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 11-point gap between Osborn Hill School and Mckinley School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 25%
School count
Top 23%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
92nd percentile

Fairfield Ludlowe High School accounts for 16.2% of all Fairfield public-school enrollment

That concentration means Fairfield-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fairfield school enrollment varies 6.0× across entities

Fairfield school enrollment ranges from 228 students (lowest) to 1,367 students (highest), a spread of 1,139 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fairfield operates one school district — a single-district system

Fairfield's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fairfield student-teacher ratio is 11.4:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Osborn Hill School 69
2. Fairfield Warde High School 68
3. Jennings School 68
4. Burr Elementary School 67
5. Stratfield School 67
6. Roger Ludlowe Middle School 66
7. Tomlinson Middle School 66
8. Holland Hill School 66
9. Fairfield Ludlowe High School 65
10. North Stratfield School 65
11. Riverfield School 65
12. Sherman School 64
13. Dwight Elementary School 64
14. Fairfield Woods Middle School 60
15. Mckinley School 58

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fairfield

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Mckinley School 68.1/100
  2. 2 Holland Hill School 59.4/100
  3. 3 Tomlinson Middle School 57.8/100
  4. 4 Fairfield Warde High School 55.4/100
  5. 5 Fairfield Woods Middle School 51.4/100

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Which Fairfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Osborn Hill School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fairfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fairfield, CT? ▼

Fairfield has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,419 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.4:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.