Enrollment
255
Elementary
DISTRICT 250 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKEWOOD CITY·NCES 390441905437
Harrison Elementary School
2080 Quail St, Lakewood, OH 44107 · (216) 529-4230 · Cuyahoga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL255 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of Ohio public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
14.2:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
170 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 43%
Community
0
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 | 32 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
70.2%
OH avg 59.8% . -1.6pp since 2021
Math
66.0%
OH avg 56.1% . -6.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.2% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.5% | 56.3% |
| 2022-23 | 63.8% | 64.2% |
| 2021-22 | 71.8% | 72.6% |
% 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
64.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Harrison Elementary School
Harrison Elementary School's state test result (64.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Elementary School this school | 255 | 66.7% | 64.7% |
| Preston Elementary School Cuyahoga Falls | 240 | 70.8% | 58.4% |
| Elizabeth Price Elementary School Cuyahoga Falls | 271 | 76.8% | 62.5% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Cuyahoga Falls | 370 | 66.5% | 62.6% |
| Richardson Elementary School Cuyahoga Falls | 315 | 63.8% | 73.1% |
| Pataskala Elementary School Pataskala | 457 | 50.5% | 67.4% |
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 Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Cuyahoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #543 of 673 | #34 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #773 of 1,569 ▲ 174 | #49 of 172 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #582 of 1,569 ▲ 196 | #44 of 172 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.1pp | #199 of 1,514 | #17 of 167 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 255 | #1,434 of 1,808 | #137 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #174 of 1,582 | #13 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.8% | #287 of 1,590 | #35 of 158 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #82 of 767 | #4 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.2% | #73 of 992 | #23 of 98 |
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
255
-6 (-2%) vs 2020
-42% since 2010-11, when it was 440
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 255 | 18 | 14.2:1 | 67% (170) |
| 2023-24 | 270 | 16 | 16.9:1 | 66% (178) |
| 2022-23 | 258 | 18 | 14.3:1 | 60% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 261 | 16 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 376 | 19.7 | 19.1:1 | 77% (291) |
| 2015-16 | 433 | 18 | 24.1:1 | 77% (332) |
| 2010-11 | 440 | 21 | 20.9:1 | 83% (366) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harrison Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (376 to 255); teachers down 8% (19.7 to 18).
About Harrison Elementary School
Federal records list Harrison Elementary School as an elementary school in Lakewood, Ohio. School enrollment was 255 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Ohio average about 404 students.
Harrison Elementary School is part of a district of 13 schools: Lakewood City, with 4,369 students.
Harrison Elementary School is 55% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 20% Asian, 11% Black, 10% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. The White share in Cuyahoga County as a whole is similar, at about 58%. Harrison Elementary School's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
Staffing totals 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. That is lower than the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 67%. The gap from the 27% average for public schools in Cuyahoga County is 40 points.
Measured against Ohio public elementary schools, Harrison Elementary School receives a B-. 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 Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 64.7%, compared with a predicted 63.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Cuyahoga County (population about 1,245,873), the median household income is $64,468, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. There are 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County, enrolling about 155,924 students in all.
Franklin School of Opportunity Online is located about 0.6 miles from Harrison Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 64.7% is below the 73.9% average for nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 261 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 255. The number of students per teacher fell from 16.3 to 14.2 over 4 years.
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Cuyahoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,245,873
Census ACS
Median income
$64,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
352
155,924 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lakewood City
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,372 students
- Garfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Harding Middle SchoolMiddle · 446 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolElementary · 323 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolElementary · 323 students
- Hayes Elementary SchoolElementary · 292 students
Other schools in Lakewood
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,372 students
- Garfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Harding Middle SchoolMiddle · 446 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolElementary · 323 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolElementary · 323 students
- Hayes Elementary SchoolElementary · 292 students
Other Harrison Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 15 states are named Harrison Elementary. Harrison Elementary School is the 17th largest of the 22.
- Harrison Elementary SchoolHarrison, OH · 604 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolChattanooga, TN · 775 students
- Harrison ElementaryStockton, CA · 640 students
- Harrison ElementaryRiverside, CA · 571 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolSouth Bend, IN · 555 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin School of Opportunity Online0.6 mi · 36
- Franklin School of Opportunity - On Site0.6 mi · 59
- Garfield Middle School0.7 mi · 457
- Northwest School of the Arts0.7 mi · 279
- Lake Erie International High School0.8 mi · 133
- Lakewood High School0.8 mi · 1,372
Frequently asked questions
About Harrison Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Harrison Elementary School?
Harrison Elementary School enrolls approximately 255 students in grades PK-05.
Is Harrison Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Harrison Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Harrison Elementary School have?
Harrison Elementary School employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Harrison Elementary School?
Student demographics at Harrison Elementary School are roughly 55% White, 4% Hispanic, 11% Black, 20% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Harrison Elementary School?
Harrison Elementary School is overseen by Lakewood City in Cuyahoga County.
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