Harrison-Morton MS

Harrison-Morton MS is a middle-grades school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Allentown, Pennsylvania, overseen by Allentown City SD, educateing 704 students in grades 6 through 8.

Allentown City SD runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 16,674 students. Harrison-Morton MS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Harrison-Morton MS reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Black, 7% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Harrison-Morton MS shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at Harrison-Morton MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lehigh County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Harrison-Morton MS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.0%; Harrison-Morton MS posts 12.6%, -24.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Lehigh County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,079 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lehigh County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), Harrison-Morton MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sheridan El Sch, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harrison-Morton MS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harrison-Morton MS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 21.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 753 students in 2018 compared to 704 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 12% to 7% over that span.

Inside the community feed, members of the Harrison-Morton MS community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.