HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY

HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in HARRISBURG, Missouri, operated by HARRISBURG R-VIII. Current enrollment sits at 291 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY is one of 3 schools operated by HARRISBURG R-VIII, a district that educates 605 students overall.

Demographically, HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Boone County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Boone County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Boone County) logs that median household earnings sit near $72,758, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY is one of 58 public schools in Boone County (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students).

The closest other public school is HARRISBURG MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY's enrollment has expanded 25% since 2018, when it stood at 232 (now 291). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 94% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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