Enrollment
277
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CEDAR RAPIDS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190654000245
Harrison Elementary School
1310 11th ST NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405 · (319) 558-2269 · Linn County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL277 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of Iowa public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
182 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 48% · 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
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
50.4%
IA avg 73.6% . +12.5pp since 2023
Math
54.0%
IA avg 70.9% . +5.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.4% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.9% | 48.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.1%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Harrison Elementary School
Harrison Elementary School's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Elementary School this school | 277 | 65.7% | 45.5% |
| Grant Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 312 | 68.3% | 44.7% |
| North Hill Elementary School Burlington | 268 | 60.8% | 64.1% |
| Wright Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 282 | 68.8% | 58.9% |
| Kenwood Leadership Academy School Cedar Rapids | 386 | 60.4% | 59.0% |
| Garfield Elementary School Davenport | 393 | 59.0% | 47.9% |
Matched among Iowa 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 Harrison Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #528 of 564 | #33 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #500 of 564 ▲ 26 | #33 of 39 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #512 of 564 ▲ 33 | #33 of 39 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 277 | #427 of 705 | #37 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #168 of 561 | #10 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #37 of 561 | #4 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.7% | #97 of 666 | #12 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.3% | #43 of 359 | #6 of 30 |
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
277
-61 (-18%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 449
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 277 | 22.1 | 12.5:1 | 66% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 288 | 19 | 15.2:1 | 78% (224) |
| 2022-23 | 285 | 19.9 | 14.3:1 | 78% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 338 | 22 | 15.4:1 | 80% (271) |
| 2017-18 | 381 | 23.2 | 16.4:1 | 73% (277) |
| 2015-16 | 399 | 21 | 19.0:1 | 74% (296) |
| 2010-11 | 308 | 22 | 14.0:1 | 73% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 469 | 29 | 16.2:1 | 60% (280) |
| 1990-91 | 449 | 26 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harrison Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (381 to 277); teachers down 5% (23.2 to 22.1).
About Harrison Elementary School
Harrison Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Iowa, with an address in Cedar Rapids. It serves 277 students in kindergarten through 5.
Cedar Rapids Comm School District serves 15,494 students across 35 schools.
Harrison Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 44%. It is also 25% Black, 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 3% Pacific Islander. Linn County's residents are about 84% White, 40 points above the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Harrison Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 71%.
Harrison Elementary School's 22.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 12.5:1. That ratio is under the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 66%. The gap from the 40% average for public schools in Linn County is 26 points.
allk12 grades Harrison Elementary School an F. The grade compares the school only with Iowa public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Iowa with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 59.1%. Harrison Elementary School posts 45.5%, 13.6 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Linn County show that median household income is about $77,649, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 83 public schools in Linn County, with a combined enrollment of about 36,480.
Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy is the public school closest to Harrison Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 52.9%; Harrison Elementary School's is 45.5%, ranking 5th of 7.
NCES assigns Harrison Elementary School the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Harrison Elementary School had 338 students in 2020-21 and 277 in 2024-25, an 18% decrease. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.4:1 to 12.5:1 over the same years.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Harrison Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,004
Census ACS
Median income
$77,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,480 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cedar Rapids Comm School District
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Harding Middle SchoolMiddle · 710 students
- Taft Middle SchoolMiddle · 593 students
- Viola Gibson Elementary SchoolElementary · 565 students
Other schools in Cedar Rapids
- Prairie High SchoolHigh · 1,766 students
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Prairie PointMiddle · 868 students
- Prairie CreekMiddle · 846 students
Other Harrison Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 15 states are named Harrison Elementary. Harrison Elementary School is the 15th largest of the 22.
- Harrison Elementary SchoolDavenport, IA · 459 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolChattanooga, TN · 775 students
- Harrison ElementaryStockton, CA · 640 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolHarrison, OH · 604 students
- Harrison ElementaryRiverside, CA · 571 students
Nearby schools
- Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy0.7 mi · 484
- Madison Elementary School1.2 mi · 153
- Cedar River Academy at Taylor1.2 mi · 355
- Cleveland Elementary School1.3 mi · 254
- City View High1.3 mi · 100
- Thomas Jefferson High School1.5 mi · 1,501
Frequently asked questions
About Harrison Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Harrison Elementary School?
Harrison Elementary School enrolls approximately 277 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Harrison Elementary School serve?
Harrison Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Harrison Elementary School?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at Harrison Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Harrison Elementary School?
Student demographics at Harrison Elementary School are roughly 44% White, 14% Hispanic, 25% Black, 13% Two or more.
What district is Harrison Elementary School in?
Harrison Elementary School is part of Cedar Rapids Comm School District.
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