NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Fairmont, MN

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6 public K-12 schools in Fairmont 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
1,940
Students
49.7/100
Avg Resource Index
10.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fairmont has more public-school enrollment than 11% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fairmont Elementary School enrolls 51.9% of Fairmont'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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Fairmont's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Fairmont lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 5 to 1,007 students, a 201-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 89%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Fairmont Elementary School accounts for 51.9% of all Fairmont public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Fairmont a distant remainder — means Fairmont-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fairmont school enrollment varies 201× across entities

Fairmont school enrollment ranges from 5 students (lowest) to 1,007 students (highest), a spread of 1,002 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Fairmont student-teacher ratio is 10.3:1 — 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. Southern Plains Education Coop. 75
2. Southern Plains Area Learning Cntr. 61
3. Positive Approach to Learning 55
4. Southern Plains Bridges 53
5. Fairmont Elementary School 30
6. Fairmont Jr./Sr. High School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fairmont

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 Southern Plains Education Coop. 55.9/100
  2. 2 Southern Plains Bridges 52.6/100
  3. 3 Southern Plains Area Learning Cntr. 50.2/100
  4. 4 Fairmont Elementary School 44.6/100
  5. 5 Fairmont Jr./Sr. High School 43.3/100

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Which Fairmont school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Southern Plains Education Coop. has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fairmont schools in this federal-data comparison at 75/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fairmont, MN? ▼

Fairmont has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,940 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.3:1.

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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.