NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IA

Best-Resourced Schools in Fairbank, IA

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

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6
Schools
572
Students
32.5/100
Avg Resource Index
20.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fairbank has more public-school enrollment than 1% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wapsie Valley High School enrolls 47.7% of Fairbank's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Fairbank's 6 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 0 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Fairbank lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 17 to 273 students, a 16-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 99%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
18th percentile
Teacher staffing
12th percentile

Wapsie Valley High School accounts for 47.7% of all Fairbank public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Fairbank a distant remainder — means Fairbank-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Fairbank school enrollment varies 16× across entities

Fairbank school enrollment ranges from 17 students (lowest) to 273 students (highest), a spread of 256 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Fairbank student-teacher ratio is 20.8:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Fairbank Elementary School 59
2. Rural Elementary School #2 41
3. Wapsie Valley High School 34
4. Rural Elementary School #4 31
5. Triumph Elementary School 15
6. Rural Elementary School #1 15

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Which Fairbank school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Fairbank Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fairbank schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fairbank, IA? ▼

Fairbank has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 572 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.8:1.

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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.