Harrison High School

Harrison High School, a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in HARRISON, New Jersey, overseen by Harrison Public Schools, instructs 795 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Harrison Public Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,192 students; Harrison High School is among them.

On demographics, Harrison High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest comes out to 6% White, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at Harrison High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hudson County (around 68%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Harrison High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hudson County shows the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Harrison High School is one.

The closest other public school is Washington Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harrison High School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 27.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harrison High School has rose 12%, going from 712 students in 2018 to 795 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 19% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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