NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Fairfield, IL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

5 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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Schools

1,435

Students

36.6/100

Avg Resource Index

14.7:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fairfield has more public-school enrollment than 5% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fairfield sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Fairfield's 5 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 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 30-point gap between New Hope Elem School and Fairfield Comm High School shows the range hidden by Fairfield's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment: Top 95%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 31st percentile
Teacher staffing: 58th percentile

Fairfield Comm High School accounts for 30.9% of all Fairfield public-school enrollment

That dominant 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Fairfield school enrollment varies 2.6× across entities

Fairfield school enrollment ranges from 170 students (lowest) to 444 students (highest), a spread of 274 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Fairfield student-teacher ratio is 14.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Fairfield is typically wider than the Fairfield-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	New Hope Elem School	50	204	elementary	New Hope Ccsd 6
2.	Jasper Elem School	45	170	elementary	Jasper Ccsd 17
3.	North Side Elem School	43	321	Combined	Fairfield Psd 112
4.	Center Street Elem School	25	296	elementary	Fairfield Psd 112
5.	Fairfield Comm High School	20	444	high	Fairfield Comm H S Dist 225

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Which Fairfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

New Hope Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fairfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fairfield, IL? ▼

Fairfield has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,435 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.7:1.

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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.