Fairfield Career Center
Carroll · OH · Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools · Public
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Bloom-Carroll High School → Fairfield Christian Academy → Haugland Learning Center Lancaster → William V Fisher Catholic High School → Lancaster High School → Liberty Union High School → Pickerington High School Central → Canal Winchester High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 1 physics · 7 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 44% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 16% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Fairfield Career Center compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyOH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Bloom-Carroll High School, Fairfield Christian Academy, Haugland Learning Center Lancaster and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 44% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 16% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +2.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 523 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloom-Carroll High School Carroll |
Public | 2.2 | 697 | +9.6% |
| Fairfield Christian Academy Lancaster |
Private | 3.6 | 491 | +11.1% |
| Haugland Learning Center Lancaster Lancaster |
Private | 4.4 | 27 | — |
| William V Fisher Catholic High School Lancaster |
Private | 5.0 | 150 | -19.4% |
| Lancaster High School Lancaster |
Public | 5.3 | 1,995 | +10.0% |
| Liberty Union High School Baltimore |
Public | 6.6 | 349 | -8.2% |
| Pickerington High School Central Pickerington |
Public | 8.7 | 1,711 | -4.8% |
| Canal Winchester High School Canal Winchester |
Public | 8.7 | 1,121 | -5.6% |