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C O Harrison Elementary School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 69% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 12 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About C O Harrison Elementary School
Set in Cincinnati, Ohio, C O Harrison Elementary School is a sizable primary school, run under Oak Hills Local. It hosts 909 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 125% larger than typical.
Oak Hills Local comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 7,381 students; C O Harrison Elementary School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, C O Harrison Elementary School shows that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 12% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting C O Harrison Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 51% 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 Hamilton County (around 34%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
With demographic context factored in, C O Harrison Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 69.4%; C O Harrison Elementary School posts 81.9%, +12.4 points above that line.
In the area at large, Hamilton County reports that median household income runs about $72,470, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. C O Harrison Elementary School is one of 212 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students).
Nearest neighbor: Delhi Middle School, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around C O Harrison Elementary School.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 914 students in 2018 compared to 909 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 86% to 74% over that span.
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