Harney Elementary School

Harney Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school in Lebanon, Indiana, one of the schools within Lebanon Community School Corp. The school hosts 448 students in grades K through 5.

Lebanon Community School Corp runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,701 students. Harney Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Harney Elementary School lists that 78% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Boone County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Boone County (around 22%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harney Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Boone County) records that median household earnings sit near $111,250, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Boone County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,246 students), of which Harney Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Lebanon Senior High School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Harney Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Harney Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 496 students in 2018 compared to 448 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 87% to 78%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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