Harmon Middle School

Set in Aurora, Ohio, Harmon Middle School is a moderately sized intermediate school, one of the schools within Aurora City. It instructs 689 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Harmon Middle School sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.

Harmon Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Aurora City, a district that teaches 3,049 students overall.

Demographically, Harmon Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 14% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Portage County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Portage County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harmon Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 85.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 87.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Portage County) records that the typical household earns roughly $75,766 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Portage County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,638 students), Harmon Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Aurora High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harmon Middle School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 83.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 677 students in 2018 compared to 689 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 86% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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