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David A. Harrison Elementary
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Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Virginia 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 Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About David A. Harrison Elementary
As an average-sized K-5 school in Disputanta, Virginia, David A. Harrison Elementary enrolls 630 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Prince George County Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so David A. Harrison Elementary sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.
Prince George County Public Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 6,220 students. David A. Harrison Elementary is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, David A. Harrison Elementary logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 18% Black, 8% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, David A. Harrison Elementary has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting David A. Harrison Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Prince George County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, David A. Harrison Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.7%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of -1.8 points.
Around the school, Prince George County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,897, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. David A. Harrison Elementary is one of 9 public schools in Prince George County (combined enrollment of about 6,220 students).
J.E.J. Moore Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), David A. Harrison Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 63.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at David A. Harrison Elementary has edged up 14%, going from 552 students in 2018 to 630 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 23% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.
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Prince George County at a glance
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