La Harpe Elementary School

Set in La Harpe, Illinois, La Harpe Elementary School is an intimate elementary-level community, run under La Harpe CSD 347. It works with 181 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so La Harpe Elementary School sits 52% below that benchmark.

La Harpe Elementary School is a school of La Harpe CSD 347, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, La Harpe Elementary School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting La Harpe Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at La Harpe Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hancock County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, La Harpe Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 23.7%; actual is 41.7%, +18.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hancock County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,865 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Hancock County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,703 students), of which La Harpe Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Dallas City Elem School, roughly 9.9 miles away. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Harpe Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 26%: 144 students in 2018 compared to 181 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 97% to 92% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.