diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index 7fc88e3..d6014b4 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -53,3 +53,4 @@ agate is made by a community. The following individuals have contributed code, d
 * `Karthik Ramadugu <https://github.com/karthiksai109>`__
 * `Josh Renaud <https://github.com/Kirkman>`__
 * `Vincent Gao <https://github.com/gaoflow>`__
+* `Sanjay Santhanam <https://github.com/Sanjays2402>`__
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index f5824fa..e0acb44 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 - fix: :meth:`.Table.distinct` now deduplicates rows when ``key`` is a sequence of column names.
 - fix: :class:`.Rank` ranks null values last when ``reverse=True``.
+- fix: :meth:`.Table.from_fixed` reads the schema instead of the data file when ``schema_path`` is a file-like object.
 
 1.14.2 - February 27, 2026
 --------------------------
diff --git a/agate/table/from_fixed.py b/agate/table/from_fixed.py
index 08ad9a0..7f0d929 100644
--- a/agate/table/from_fixed.py
+++ b/agate/table/from_fixed.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def from_fixed(cls, path, schema_path, column_names=utils.default, column_types=
             schema_f = open(schema_path, encoding=schema_encoding)
             close_schema_f = True
         else:
-            schema_f = path
+            schema_f = schema_path
 
         reader = fixed.reader(f, schema_f)
         rows = list(reader)
diff --git a/tests/test_table/test_from_fixed.py b/tests/test_table/test_from_fixed.py
index a546125..ed001c6 100644
--- a/tests/test_table/test_from_fixed.py
+++ b/tests/test_table/test_from_fixed.py
@@ -11,3 +11,15 @@ def test_from_fixed(self):
         self.assertColumnTypes(table2, [type(c) for c in table1.column_types])
 
         self.assertRows(table2, table1.rows)
+
+    def test_from_fixed_file_like_objects(self):
+        table1 = Table.from_csv('examples/testfixed_converted.csv')
+
+        with open('examples/testfixed', encoding='utf-8') as f, \
+                open('examples/testfixed_schema.csv', encoding='utf-8') as schema_f:
+            table2 = Table.from_fixed(f, schema_f)
+
+        self.assertColumnNames(table2, table1.column_names)
+        self.assertColumnTypes(table2, [type(c) for c in table1.column_types])
+
+        self.assertRows(table2, table1.rows)