Fairfield Area School District

What Fairfield Area School District does

Fairfield Area School District (FASD) is a public K-12 school district operating under the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Fairfield, Adams County. It serves approximately 875 students across three schools: Fairfield Area Elementary School (grades K-4), Fairfield Area Middle School (grades 5-8), and Fairfield Area High School (grades 9-12), supported by an 11:1 teacher-to-student ratio and a 95% average graduation rate. The district is funded through a combination of local property taxes, Pennsylvania state education funding, and federal programs including Title I, IDEA, McKinney-Vento, and the National School Lunch Program. As a government entity, FASD is governed by an elected Board of Directors and is not a privately owned or traded organization.

The district's core product is comprehensive public K-12 education, augmented by specialized programs including special education (Autistic, Learning, Life Skills, Emotional, Hearing/Vision Impaired, Speech/Language, and Physical Support), gifted education (pull-out through AP), K-12 counseling, Title I reading intervention, and a cyber learning option (Fairfield Area Cyber Education, FACE). Auxiliary services include food services (with free breakfast for all students), an athletics and activities program spanning 47 offerings, transportation (including for residents attending non-public schools in PA and Maryland), and health services. The technology stack is built on Skyward for student information, Clever for SSO, GoGuardian for Chromebook content filtering (extended to take-home devices for COPPA/CIPA compliance), ParentSquare for family communication, and RevTrak for online lunch payments.

FASD's revenue model is fundamentally a publicly funded appropriations model anchored on per-pupil allocation from state and federal sources rather than a transactional commercial revenue model. Direct consumer revenue is limited to unit-priced food service transactions (K-4 lunch $2.95, grades 5-12 lunch $3.15, milk $0.75) and ancillary fees. Customer acquisition is structural: students enroll by district residency through a documented registration process, supported by open enrollment for residents and transportation provision to non-public schools. The customer base is horizontally segmented across K-4, 5-8, and 9-12 cohorts, with secondary segments for special education, gifted, and McKinney-Vento eligible students.

Name

Fairfield Area School District

Legal name

Fairfield Area School District

Website

https://fairfieldpaschools.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Fairfield Area School District is a public K-12 school district in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, serving approximately 875 students across elementary, middle, and high schools. It delivers core academic instruction, special education, gifted programs, and student support services funded by local taxes and state and federal education programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Public Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public School Districts (K–12) (EDADABAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Elementary Schools (EDAJAAAB), Public Middle Schools (EDAJAAAC), Public High Schools (EDAJAAAD)

Keywords

• Public K-12 education
• Elementary school programs
• Secondary education services
• Special education services
• School district administration

Headquarters

HQ city

Fairfield

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Public School Funding: Funded primarily through local property taxes, state education funding, and federal programs including Title I, IDEA, and National School Lunch Program.
2. Food Services: Revenue from student meal purchases. K-4 lunch $2.95, 5-12 lunch $3.15, milk $0.75. Free breakfast provided to all students. Reduced eligible students receive free lunch for 2025-2026.
3. Federal Programs: Title I reading support, IDEA special education services, McKinney-Vento homeless assistance, and other federal education grants.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fairfield Area School District is a public K-12 school district operating three schools (Elementary K-4, Middle 5-8, and High School 9-12) serving approximately 875 students in Fairfield, Adams County, Pennsylvania. It delivers core academic instruction, special education, gifted programs, Title I reading intervention, school counseling, athletics, food services, transportation, and a cyber education option (FACE). The district is funded primarily through local property taxes, state education funding, and federal grants including Title I, IDEA, and the National School Lunch Program.

Product overview

Fairfield Area School District operates as a three-school public school district serving approximately 875 students in grades K-12 in Fairfield, Pennsylvania. The district offers a unified educational program comprising core schooling through its Elementary, Middle, and High schools, supplemented by specialized programs including Special Education Services (with support categories for autistic, learning, life skills, emotional, hearing/vision impaired, speech/language, and physical needs), Gifted Education, School Counseling, Title I Reading Intervention, and Career & Technical Education counseling. The district also provides auxiliary services including Food Services (breakfast and lunch programs), Athletics (47 programs), Transportation, Health Services, and Technology Services. A cyber education option (FACE) is available for students seeking online learning. The district utilizes Skyward for student information management, ParentSquare for family communication, and GoGuardian for device filtering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fairfield Area Elementary School
• Fairfield Area Middle School
• Fairfield Area High School
• Special Education Services
• Gifted Education Program
• School Counseling Program
• Title I Reading Program
• Fairfield Area Cyber Education (FACE)
• Athletics Program
• Food Services
• Technology Services
• Student Transportation

Quantifiable outcome

• 95% Average Graduation Rate
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12 (LIU)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLincoln Intermediate Unit #12 provides preschool screening services for children ages 3 to school-age eligibility. The LIU coordinates early intervention services and special education programs. Screening locations include York Learning Center, LIU Central Office in New Oxford, and Franklin Learning Center in Chambersburg.
• Adams County Christian AcademyminorOthersFASD transports district residents to Adams County Christian Academy as a non-public school partner.
• Vida Charter SchoolminorOthersFASD transports district residents to Vida Charter School as a non-public school partner in Adams County.
• St. FrancisminorOthersFASD transports district residents to St. Francis as a non-public school partner in Adams County.
• Mother Seton School (Emmitsburg, MD)minorOthersFASD transports district residents to Mother Seton School in Emmitsburg, Maryland as a non-public school partner.
• ESS (Educational Staffing Services)minorOthersESS provides substitute teacher staffing services for the district. Interested substitutes must apply directly through ESS website.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Solanco School District: Southern Lancaster County rural K-12 district with comparable enrollment scale, single high school footprint, and PIAA athletic profile.
• Chambersburg Area School District: Franklin County, PA public K-12 district within the same LIU #12 region; similar career-technical and Title I program structures and operates special education supports for districts across the area.
• Carlisle Area School District: Central PA public K-12 district operating multiple school buildings with comparable AP/gifted/SPED programming and Farm Show-region demographics.
• Gettysburg Area School District: Neighboring Adams County, PA public K-12 district of comparable rural-suburban character; competes for resident families and shares Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12 special education resources.
• Lampeter-Strasburg School District: Lancaster County, PA public K-12 district of similar size and community-school identity, providing a useful peer for graduation-rate and extracurricular benchmarking.
• Spring Grove Area School District: York County, PA public K-12 district of similar mid-small scale; comparable extracurricular breadth and PA state accountability reporting cadence.

Broad incumbents

• West Shore School District: Cumberland/York County regional PA K-12 district; substantially larger but operates the same Lincoln Intermediate Unit-aligned special education and gifted programming.
• Central York School District: Larger York County, PA public K-12 district; useful as a regional scale benchmark for Skyward/ParentSquare deployment patterns and Title I service delivery.

Emerging players

• Vida Charter School: Adams County PA cyber/charter operator that directly draws FASD residents (and to which FASD provides transportation); functional competitor for enrollment within the same catchment.

Others

• Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12: Regional IU providing preschool screening, special education, and curriculum services to FASD and other PA districts; not a competitor but a key enabling partner with deep operational overlap.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fairfieldsd
• Facebookfacebook.com/FASDKnights

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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