SOUTH HARRISON ELEM.

SOUTH HARRISON ELEM. is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in BETHANY, Missouri, one of the schools within SOUTH HARRISON CO. R-II, with 269 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

Within SOUTH HARRISON CO. R-II, which oversees 3 schools and 741 students, SOUTH HARRISON ELEM. is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUTH HARRISON ELEM. shows that nearly all students (95%) are White. Other groups include 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTH HARRISON ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Harrison County shows median household earnings sit near $54,367, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harrison County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,269 students), of which SOUTH HARRISON ELEM. is one.

SOUTH HARRISON HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SOUTH HARRISON ELEM.. On composite proficiency, SOUTH HARRISON ELEM. comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 347 students in 2018 compared to 269 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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