Harrison Education Center

Harrison Education Center operates as a micro-enrollment secondary school in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, run under Minneapolis Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 50 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Harrison Education Center sits 87% below that benchmark.

Across the 86 schools in Minneapolis Public School District (29,928 students total), Harrison Education Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Harrison Education Center reports that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 12% White, 10% Native American, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting Harrison Education Center tighter than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hennepin County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Harrison Education Center is one.

River Bend Educational Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Harrison Education Center's enrollment has rose 56% since 2018, when it stood at 32 (now 50). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 81% to 68%.

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