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Enrollment
1,069
Middle
DISTRICT 723 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHWEST LOCAL·NCES 390473802878
Harrison Middle School
9840 West Rd, Harrison, OH 45030 · (513) 367-4831 · Hamilton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL1,069 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of Ohio public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
23.9:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
406 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 366 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 361 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 342 | 32% |
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · 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 Middle School→William Henry Harrison High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Southwest Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
65.9%
OH avg 59.8% . +2.6pp since 2021
Math
74.1%
OH avg 56.1% . +2.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.9% | 74.1% |
| 2023-24 | 65.7% | 76.1% |
| 2022-23 | 64.9% | 73.5% |
| 2021-22 | 63.3% | 71.2% |
% 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
69.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Middle School
Harrison Middle School's state test result (69.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Middle School this school | 1,069 | 38.0% | 69.8% |
| North Canton Middle School North Canton | 957 | 31.2% | 80.5% |
| Shore Middle School Mentor | 752 | 35.1% | 69.1% |
| Lebanon Junior High Lebanon | 869 | 32.6% | 69.6% |
| Talawanda Middle School Oxford | 679 | 38.3% | 70.3% |
| Brunswick Middle School Brunswick | 1,375 | 29.5% | 70.9% |
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 Harrison Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Hamilton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #189 of 316 | #10 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.1% | #221 of 637 ▼ 38 | #13 of 25 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #307 of 637 ▼ 43 | #14 of 25 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #302 of 629 | #14 of 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,069 | #18 of 654 | #3 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.9:1 | #557 of 577 | #24 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.7% | #429 of 579 | #24 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.0% | #169 of 319 | #3 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.9% | #74 of 169 | #4 of 8 |
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
1,069
-10 (-1%) vs 2020
+69% since 1990-91, when it was 633
Student : Teacher
23.9:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 1,069 | 44.7 | 23.9:1 | 38% (406) |
| 2023-24 | 1,069 | 45.3 | 23.6:1 | 37% (392) |
| 2022-23 | 1,070 | 43.3 | 24.7:1 | 30% (320) |
| 2020-21 | 1,079 | 71 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 964 | 41 | 23.5:1 | 37% (357) |
| 2015-16 | 878 | 36 | 24.4:1 | 38% (330) |
| 2010-11 | 589 | 25 | 23.6:1 | 34% (202) |
| 2000-01 | 697 | 37 | 18.8:1 | 11% (76) |
| 1990-91 | 633 | 29 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harrison Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (964 to 1,069); teachers up 9% (41 to 44.7).
About Harrison Middle School
Harrison Middle School is a high-enrollment middle-grades school for students in Harrison, Ohio. The school has 1,069 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in Ohio have about 482 students on average; enrollment here is 122% higher.
A total of 6 schools make up Southwest Local, with 4,340 students enrolled.
White students account for 91% of the school's enrollment. Other reported shares: 3% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. Hamilton County's residents are about 63% White, 27 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 18, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 23.9 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Harrison Middle School, which has 44.7. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Ohio is 17.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Harrison Middle School is about 38%.
Among Ohio public middle schools, Harrison Middle School outscored 50%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
In Ohio, Harrison Middle School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 69.8% actual against a predicted 74.5%.
The school's county is Hamilton County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $72,470 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Hamilton County number 212, with about 111,403 students.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates Harrison Middle School from the closest public school, Miami Whitewater Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes 5 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Harrison Middle School at 5th of 8.
Locale data from NCES put Harrison Middle School in a town close to an urbanized area (Town: Fringe).
Enrollment at Harrison Middle School was 1,079 in 2020-21 and 1,069 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.2:1 in 2020-21, and 23.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Hamilton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
830,774
Census ACS
Median income
$72,470
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
212
111,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Southwest Local
- William Henry Harrison High SchoolHigh · 1,122 students
- Crosby Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Miami Whitewater Elementary SchoolElementary · 672 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 604 students
- Wildcat Pathways AcademyHigh · 66 students
Other schools in Harrison
- William Henry Harrison High SchoolHigh · 1,122 students
- Crosby Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Miami Whitewater Elementary SchoolElementary · 672 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 604 students
- Wildcat Pathways AcademyHigh · 66 students
Other Harrison Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Harrison Middle. Harrison Middle School is the largest of the 5.
- HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOLHARRISON, AR · 865 students
- Harrison Middle SchoolSunnyside, WA · 820 students
- Harrison Middle SchoolHARRISON, MI · 279 students
- HARRISON MIDDLEALBUQUERQUE, NM · 265 students
Nearby schools
- Miami Whitewater Elementary School0.1 mi · 672
- William Henry Harrison High School0.2 mi · 1,122
- Wildcat Pathways Academy0.3 mi · 66
- Harrison Elementary School2.3 mi · 604
- Crosby Elementary School3.1 mi · 807
- Morgan Elementary School5.4 mi · 385
Frequently asked questions
About Harrison Middle SchoolHow large is Harrison Middle School?
Harrison Middle School enrolls approximately 1,069 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Harrison Middle School serve?
Harrison Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Harrison Middle School?
Approximately 23.9:1 students per teacher at Harrison Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Harrison Middle School?
At Harrison Middle School, the student body is approximately 91% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Harrison Middle School public or private?
Harrison Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Southwest Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.