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Fairhaven Public Schools

Grades served

K-12

Total enrollment (2004-5)
Rank: 145 out of 328 districts

2,291

Racial makeup of student body (2004-5)

African-American	1.4%
Asian	0.4%
Hispanic	0.7%

Native American	0.2%
White	97.3%

Gender makeup of student body (2004-5)

Boys

50.9%

Girls

49.1%

Students whose first language is not English
Rank: 216 out of 328 districts

0.8%

Students with limited English proficiency
Rank: 216 out of 328 districts

Students in special education
Rank: 162 out of 328 districts

15%

Students from low-income families
Rank: 109 out of 328 districts

18.2%

Dropouts per 100 students (2003)
Rank: 175 out of 256 districts

2.8

Average number of absences per student

Percent of days an average student attended school
Rank: 143 out of 328 districts

95.2%

Students who received one or more in-school suspensions

Students who received one or more out-of-school suspensions

12.7%

Students who repeated a grade
Rank: 21 out of 327 districts

Plans of high school graduates

4-yr private college	1.7%
4-yr public college	51.3%
2-yr private college	0.8%
2-yr public college	17.6%
Other education	0%

Joined workforce	15.1%
Military service	3.4%
Other	0%
Unknown	10.1%

Total number of teachers (2004-5)

170

Student/teacher ratio (2004-5)
Rank: 177 out of 328 districts

13.5 to 1

Core academic teachers identified as "highly qualified" (2004-5)
Rank: 256 out of 328 districts

92.6%

Teachers licensed in their teaching assignment (2004-5)

98.4%

Average teacher salary (2002-3)
Rank: 281 out of 328 districts

$44,601

Total school spending (FY04)

$16,461,464

Per-pupil spending overall (FY04)
Rank: 260 out of 325 districts

$7,291

Per-pupil spending on regular education (FY04)
Rank: 254 out of 308 districts

$5,914

Per-pupil spending on special education (FY04)
Rank: 177 out of 325 districts

$14,189

Number of students per computer
Rank: 308 out of 327 districts

11.9

Classrooms on the Internet

99.1%

Town-level statistics

2004 MCAS scores

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