Harrison Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Harrison Elementary School teaches 277 students from grades K through 5, part of Cedar Rapids Comm School District.

Cedar Rapids Comm School District runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 15,494 students. Harrison Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Harrison Elementary School reports that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Linn County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harrison Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 59.1%; this one comes in at 45.5%, -13.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Linn County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Harrison Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Harrison Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harrison Elementary School has declined 27%, going from 381 students in 2018 to 277 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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