Osseo-Fairchild School District
Osseo-Fairchild, a rural school district with three learning centers, displays pride in academics, the arts, and athletics. We are fortunate to have passed two major building referendums recently. Fairchild, which is fourteen miles from Osseo, has 4-Year Old Kindergarten through fifth grade in a 1996 building. Osseo Elementary has 4-Year Old Kindergarten through fifth grade in a building that was remodeled and doubled in size in 1996. The middle school/high school complex was completed in 2002 and has grades six through twelve. This complex boosts an auditorium, two gymnasiums, a state of the art media center with a distance learning classroom, an art gallery, and a community fitness center. A special feature of the science department is an eight-foot salt-water coral reef.
Within our district boundaries are many students who qualify for free and reduced price lunch. Our current percentage of eligible students is 36.5%. Fairchild Elementary is particularly impacted with a free and reduced price count of 60%. For Title 1 services, Fairchild Elementary qualifies as a schoolwide project. Our district hosts many special education programs including an ED program and has developed an Alternative Education program. Approximately seventy students receive LD services. Our percentage of children with disabilities is approximately 16%.
Members of four Native American nations live in our district. We also have several Hispanic, African-American, and Japanese families. Overall, ethnic diversity is quite limited with perhaps twenty students in the middle school/high school. The total student population in the district is approximately one thousand.
We have hosted as many as seven world exchange students during a school year. Most years we have three or four. Biannually we host Japanese students for two weeks. For several years, we have hosted groups of German students, Korean teachers, and Japanese teachers for one to four weeks. These visitors become a part of our school and widen our experiences. We encourage our students to travel abroad.
