H. W. Harkness Elementary

Set in Sacramento, California, H. W. Harkness Elementary is a small elementary campus, part of Sacramento City Unified. It instructs 287 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so H. W. Harkness Elementary sits 38% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 73 schools in Sacramento City Unified (37,657 students total), H. W. Harkness Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, H. W. Harkness Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Asian, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, H. W. Harkness Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.1%; this one delivers 18.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) logs that median household earnings sit near $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), H. W. Harkness Elementary is one campus in the mix.

John Morse Therapeutic Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around H. W. Harkness Elementary. On composite proficiency, H. W. Harkness Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. H. W. Harkness Elementary's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 287). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 41% to 63% over that span.

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