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How has Harrison Central Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
773
Elementary
DISTRICT 660 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISON HILLS CITY·NCES 390452405614
Harrison Central Elementary School
100 Huskies Way, Cadiz, OH 43907 · (740) 942-7550 · Harrison County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL773 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Ohio public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
436 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 80 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 103 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 90 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (90).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · 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
Harrison Central Elementary School→Harrison Central Jr./Sr. High School
Based on grade levels within Harrison Hills City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
58.5%
OH avg 59.8% . -1.0pp since 2021
Math
46.4%
OH avg 56.1% . +5.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 are up about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.5% | 46.4% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 45.5% |
| 2022-23 | 57.1% | 46.0% |
| 2021-22 | 59.5% | 41.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 68% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Harrison Central Elementary School
Harrison Central Elementary School's state test result (53.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Central Elementary School this school | 773 | 56.4% | 53.5% |
| Hubbard Elementary School Hubbard | 663 | 54.8% | 76.1% |
| Carrollton Elementary School Carrollton | 804 | 56.8% | 55.9% |
| Wapakoneta Elementary Wapakoneta | 800 | 52.5% | 69.2% |
| Madison Elementary School Middletown | 711 | 51.8% | 75.6% |
| Jefferson Elementary Jefferson | 654 | 54.4% | 63.3% |
Matched among Ohio elementary 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 Harrison Central Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #642 of 673 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.4% | #1,132 of 1,569 ▼ 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #948 of 1,569 ▼ 126 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #846 of 1,514 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 773 | #99 of 1,808 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #890 of 1,582 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.9% | #1,257 of 1,590 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.4% | #165 of 767 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +41.1% | #84 of 561 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
773
-36 (-4%) vs 2020
+38% since 2010-11, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 773 | 43 | 18.0:1 | 56% (436) |
| 2023-24 | 779 | 41 | 19.0:1 | 53% (412) |
| 2022-23 | 807 | 43 | 18.8:1 | 51% (409) |
| 2020-21 | 809 | 43 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 548 | 26.8 | 20.4:1 | 53% (291) |
| 2015-16 | 561 | 25 | 22.4:1 | 53% (296) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 30 | 18.7:1 | 52% (295) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harrison Central Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 41% (548 to 773); teachers up 60% (26.8 to 43).
About Harrison Central Elementary School
Harrison Central Elementary School is a large elementary school in Cadiz, Ohio, one of the schools in Harrison Hills City. It serves 773 students in pre-K through 6. The average among elementary schools in Ohio is roughly 404 students; this school is 91% bigger than that.
District-wide, Harrison Hills City has 2 schools and 1,319 students.
The large majority of students at Harrison Central Elementary School, 91%, are White. The remaining shares are 6% multiracial and 2% Black. County-wide, about 94% of residents are White. By the diversity index, Harrison Central Elementary School comes in at 17%.
The school employs the equivalent of 43 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 18.0:1. Elementary schools in Ohio average about 17.9:1, a similar figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 56%.
Measured against Ohio public elementary schools, Harrison Central Elementary School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Harrison Central Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 67.5%. The school's actual rate is 53.5%, 14.0 points lower.
In Harrison County (population about 14,306), median household income is about $54,414, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 12% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Harrison Central Elementary School is one of 4 public schools in Harrison County, which together enroll about 1,485 students.
The closest other public school is Harrison Central Jr./Sr. High School, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are 2 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Harrison Central Elementary School ranks 3rd of 4 nearby schools, at 53.5% versus a 68.2% average.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Federal counts put enrollment at 809 in 2020-21 and 773 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease.
The Harrison Central Elementary School community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Harrison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
14,306
Census ACS
Median income
$54,414
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
12%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
4
1,485 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harrison Hills City
- Harrison Central Jr./Sr. High SchoolHigh · 546 students
Other schools in Cadiz
- Harrison Central Jr./Sr. High SchoolHigh · 546 students
- Harrison Career CenterHigh · 93 students
Other Harrison Central Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Harrison Central Elementary. Harrison Central Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Harrison Central ElementaryGulfport, MS · 465 students
Nearby schools
- Harrison Central Jr./Sr. High School0.0 mi · 546
- Harrison Career Center2.0 mi · 93
- Buckeye West Elementary School7.1 mi · 172
- Belmont Career Center12.9 mi · 344
- St Clairsville Elementary School13.7 mi · 621
- St Clairsville Middle School13.7 mi · 497
Frequently asked questions
About Harrison Central Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Harrison Central Elementary School?
Harrison Central Elementary School enrolls approximately 773 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Harrison Central Elementary School serve?
Harrison Central Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Harrison Central Elementary School?
Approximately 18.0:1 students per teacher at Harrison Central Elementary School.
How diverse is Harrison Central Elementary School?
Harrison Central Elementary School reports a student body of 91% White, 0% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Harrison Central Elementary School?
Harrison Central Elementary School is overseen by Harrison Hills City in Harrison County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.