Harrison High School

Located at 4500 Due West Rd NW, in Kennesaw, Georgia, Harrison High School is a heavily attended 9-12 campus that teaches 2,224 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Cobb County. That puts it 99% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Within Cobb County, which oversees 110 schools and 105,738 students, Harrison High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Harrison High School shows that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder looks like 14% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Cobb County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 119 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cobb County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harrison High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.1%, the actual is 72.4%, a residual of +3.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cobb County) records that median household income runs about $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Harrison High School is one of 129 public schools in Cobb County (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students).

Lost Mountain Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harrison High School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 63.3%.

Harrison High School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harrison High School has stayed largely flat, going from 2,206 students in 2018 to 2,224 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

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