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Enrollment
493
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050633000366
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3415 NEWLON RD, FORT SMITH, AR 72904 · (479) 782-7045 · Sebastian County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL493 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
445 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
17.8%
AR avg 34.9% . -2.2pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
AR avg 38.9% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.8% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 13.5% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
17.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (17.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 493 | 90.3% | 17.8% |
| SUNNYMEDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 510 | 91.4% | 22.6% |
| PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 387 | 89.9% | 20.1% |
| WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 498 | 86.1% | 19.7% |
| JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 464 | 95.0% | 14.3% |
| SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 411 | 91.5% | 16.9% |
Matched among Arkansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Sebastian County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #408 of 461 | #21 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #391 of 465 ▲ 30 | #19 of 23 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #410 of 465 ▼ 9 | #21 of 23 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 493 | #162 of 531 | #6 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #442 of 480 | #18 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #94 of 480 | #12 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.3% | #159 of 513 | #9 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +29.4% | #16 of 138 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
493
+176 (+56%) vs 2020
+169% since 1990-91, when it was 183
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 493 | 25.8 | 19.1:1 | 90% (445) |
| 2023-24 | 418 | 21.5 | 19.5:1 | 86% (360) |
| 2022-23 | 275 | 17.2 | 16.0:1 | 91% (250) |
| 2020-21 | 317 | 18 | 17.6:1 | 93% (295) |
| 2017-18 | 381 | 25 | 15.3:1 | 38% (146) |
| 2015-16 | 325 | 19 | 17.1:1 | 95% (310) |
| 2010-11 | 238 | 16 | 14.9:1 | 96% (228) |
| 2000-01 | 178 | 9 | 19.8:1 | 78% (138) |
| 1990-91 | 183 | 8 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of FORT SMITH, Arkansas. School enrollment was 493 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5.
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belongs to FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 27 schools and 14,164 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at 56%. The remaining shares are 16% White, 16% Black, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Sebastian County's population at about 16%. Pick two students at random and there is a 62% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 19.1:1 comes from the school's 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 3.2 students per teacher above the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 90% in 2024-25. Among public schools in Sebastian County, the average eligibility rate is 65%.
After adjusting for student poverty, HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 17.8%; the prediction is 26.3%.
Census Bureau estimates for Sebastian County show that the median household income is $57,790, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 44 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 1.3 miles, to TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Small.
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 317 in 2020-21 and 493 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (19.1:1) than in 2020-21 (17.6:1).
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Sebastian County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
128,900
Census ACS
Median income
$57,790
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
20,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Other schools in FORT SMITH
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Nearby schools
- TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 119
- SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 307
- SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 411
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 753
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 437
- SUNNYMEDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 510
Frequently asked questions
About HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 493 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.1:1.
How diverse is HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 16% White, 56% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT in Sebastian County.
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