Fairview School
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Fairview School is a K-6 elementary school in Cincinnati, Ohio, It is a German language magnet school within Cincinnati Public Schools. Fairview School is the second oldest magnet school in Cincinnati, Ohio. After WWI, Fairview was the first public school program in the U.S. to offer intensive instruction in German to primary pupils. In the early 1970s the Cincinnati Board of Education developed magnet schools to promote desegregation and offer area parents choices in education for their children. The magnet schools in addition to the standard curriculum focused on a special interest, skill or teaching technique and accepted applications from all over the city of Cincinnati. It began with the addition of two first and second grade classrooms in neighborhood schools in Fairview and Schiel in 1974.
Fairview is currently located at 2232 Stratford Avenue in the Fairview neighborhood in Cincinnati. Fairview will be moving to a new building at a new location in February, 2008 located on the corner of Clifton Avenue and McAlpin Street in Clifton.
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