Johnson Elementary School

Johnson Elementary School, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Bridgeport, West Virginia, one of the schools within Harrison County Schools, hosts 742 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, West Virginia's public schools average about 283 students each, so Johnson Elementary School sits 162% bigger than that benchmark.

Johnson Elementary School is one of 24 schools operated by Harrison County Schools, a district that caters to 9,358 students overall.

On demographics, Johnson Elementary School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Johnson Elementary School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Harrison County put median household earnings sit near $60,377, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Harrison County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,414 students), Johnson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Bridgeport High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Johnson Elementary School's enrollment has increased 32% since 2018, when it stood at 563 (now 742).

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