Summary:
ZIP code 45429 is home to a single high school, Kettering Fairmont High School, a grades 9–12 comprehensive campus with 2,445 students in the Kettering City School District in Kettering, Ohio. Because there is only one high school here, everything below is a profile of that school, with comparisons drawn against its district and against Ohio as a whole.
Kettering Fairmont's clearest strengths are social studies, biology, and geometry. In 2025–2026, 82.3% of students were proficient in American History and 81.5% in American Government, both roughly nine points above the state, while Biology came in at 76.4% versus 67.0% statewide. Geometry stands out even more: 67.7% proficient compared with 43.3% statewide, a 24.4-point advantage, though it did drop from 75.9% the prior year. The graduation rate is high at 96.4%, essentially matching the district's 96.5%, and the school holds a 3-star rating. The district itself is rated higher overall, at 4 stars and the 77th percentile among Ohio districts.
The biggest red flag is Integrated Math II, where only 7.4% of students scored proficient versus 35.3% statewide; the district is similarly low at 7.9%, which points to a district-wide pattern in that course rather than a school-specific problem. Algebra I is another gap: 67.1% proficient, which is above the state's 61.6% but 7.1 points below the district. Chronic absenteeism is 23.3%, noticeably higher than the district's 16.4%, and the school's state rank percentile slipped from 67 to 58. Social studies, biology, geometry, and the graduation rate are the bright spots; the key questions are what is driving the Integrated Math II results, why Algebra I trails the district, and how absenteeism is being addressed.
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