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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Harmon Middle School this year?
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Enrollment
689
Middle
DISTRICT 610 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AURORA CITY·NCES 390491703513
Harmon Middle School
130 Aurora Hudson Rd, Aurora, OH 44202 · (330) 562-3375 · Portage County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
59 students
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 235 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 224 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 230 | 33% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Harmon Middle School→Aurora High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Aurora City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
88.6%
OH avg 59.8% . +0.7pp since 2021
Math
87.7%
OH avg 56.1% . +0.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.6% | 87.7% |
| 2023-24 | 87.6% | 88.9% |
| 2022-23 | 88.8% | 87.1% |
| 2021-22 | 87.9% | 87.2% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
87.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
85.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 86% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Harmon Middle School
Harmon Middle School's state test result (87.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harmon Middle School this school | 689 | 8.6% | 87.6% |
| Willard Grizzell Middle School Dublin | 683 | 5.3% | 88.7% |
| Berkshire Middle School Galena | 883 | 11.0% | 86.2% |
| Olentangy Liberty Middle School Powell | 1,005 | 6.4% | 90.5% |
| Revere Middle School Akron | 593 | 11.5% | 83.8% |
| Hudson Middle School Hudson | 1,027 | 9.2% | 90.5% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Harmon Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Portage County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.6% | #19 of 316 | #1 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.7% | #42 of 637 ▼ 10 | #1 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.6% | #24 of 637 ▼ 5 | #1 of 12 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.6pp | #412 of 629 | #10 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #133 of 654 | #1 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #359 of 577 | #7 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.2% | #204 of 579 | #5 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.6% | #311 of 319 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.8% | #147 of 169 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
689
-9 (-1%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 19.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 689 | 39 | 17.7:1 | 9% (59) |
| 2023-24 | 688 | 38.5 | 17.9:1 | 9% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 695 | 38.2 | 18.2:1 | 6% (39) |
| 2020-21 | 698 | 36 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 677 | 35.2 | 19.3:1 | 7% (46) |
| 2015-16 | 682 | 34 | 20.1:1 | 9% (64) |
| 2010-11 | 734 | 39 | 18.8:1 | 13% (92) |
| 2000-01 | 780 | 40 | 19.5:1 | 3% (20) |
| 1990-91 | 492 | 23 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harmon Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (677 to 689); teachers up 11% (35.2 to 39).
About Harmon Middle School
Harmon Middle School is the name of a mid-sized middle school in Aurora, Ohio. There are 689 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in Ohio, the average enrollment is about 482.
Federal data list 5 schools in Aurora City, with 3,049 students enrolled.
White students are 75% of those enrolled at Harmon Middle School. Next come 14% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. That compares with about 87% White among all Portage County residents. A diversity index of 41% means there is a 41% chance two randomly chosen students at Harmon Middle School are from different groups.
The school has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 17.7 students per teacher. The 17.0:1 average for middle schools in Ohio is close to this figure. Of all students at Harmon Middle School, 9% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 38% average among public schools in Portage County.
Harmon Middle School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 87.6% is 2.1 points above the 85.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the wider Portage County area, the median household earns about $75,766 a year, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Harmon Middle School shares Portage County with 47 other public schools.
The closest school to Harmon Middle School is Aurora High School, located about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 7. Its average proficiency rate of 87.6% is above the 83.8% average for nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around Harmon Middle School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 698 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 689. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 19.4:1 to 17.7:1.
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Portage County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
161,956
Census ACS
Median income
$75,766
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
48
19,638 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Aurora City
- Aurora High SchoolHigh · 984 students
- Leighton Elementary SchoolElementary · 657 students
- Craddock Elementary SchoolElementary · 433 students
- Miller Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
Other schools in Aurora
- Aurora High SchoolHigh · 984 students
- Leighton Elementary SchoolElementary · 657 students
- Craddock Elementary SchoolElementary · 433 students
- Miller Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
Other Harmon Middle schools
One other US public school is named Harmon Middle. Harmon Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Harmon Middle SchoolPickerington, OH · 632 students
Nearby schools
- Aurora High School0.2 mi · 984
- Leighton Elementary School0.5 mi · 657
- Miller Elementary School0.6 mi · 286
- Craddock Elementary School0.8 mi · 433
- Ellsworth Hill Elementary School4.1 mi · 617
- Wilcox Elementary School4.7 mi · 652
Frequently asked questions
About Harmon Middle SchoolHow many students attend Harmon Middle School?
Harmon Middle School enrolls approximately 689 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Harmon Middle School serve?
Harmon Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Harmon Middle School have?
Harmon Middle School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Harmon Middle School?
Student demographics at Harmon Middle School are roughly 75% White, 3% Hispanic, 4% Black, 14% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Harmon Middle School in?
Harmon Middle School is part of Aurora City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.