Harding Elementary School

As a cozy elementary school in Youngstown, Ohio, Harding Elementary School instructs 324 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Youngstown City.

Youngstown City comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 4,004 students; Harding Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Harding Elementary School reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 22% Hispanic, 9% White, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Mahoning County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Mahoning County shows median household income runs about $56,942, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Harding Elementary School is one of 77 public schools in Mahoning County (combined enrollment of about 27,927 students).

The closest other public school is Youngstown Rayen Early College High School, roughly 1.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harding Elementary School.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Harding Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 324). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 14% to 9%.

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