Enrollment
427
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KENOSHA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550732002457
Ruth Harman Academy
8518 22nd Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53143 · (262) 359-2191 · Kenosha County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL427 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C+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.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
158 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 42%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 42 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 44 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (44).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
53.1%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
51.4%
WI avg 54.8% . +6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.1% | 51.4% |
| 2023-24 | 48.6% | 45.3% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. 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
52.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.9%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin'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 Ruth Harman Academy
Ruth Harman Academy's state test result (52.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth Harman Academy this school | 427 | 37.0% | 52.3% |
| Lake Country Academy - Charter Sheboygan | 447 | 37.6% | 60.6% |
| Bay View Montessori School Milwaukee | 449 | 36.5% | 58.1% |
| Pleasant Prairie Elementary Pleasant Prairie | 542 | 35.6% | 60.5% |
| Northside Elementary Sun Prairie | 439 | 40.5% | 44.1% |
| Edgewood Elementary Oak Creek | 389 | 41.6% | 61.1% |
Matched among Wisconsin 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 Ruth Harman Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Kenosha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #583 of 982 | #16 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #569 of 992 ▲ 114 | #20 of 34 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #490 of 992 ▲ 126 | #15 of 34 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 427 | #288 of 1,157 | #18 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #209 of 901 | #4 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #198 of 901 | #19 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.0% | #621 of 1,064 | #22 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +95.0% | #5 of 240 | #1 of 13 |
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
427
+214 (+100%) vs 2020
+151% since 2000-01, when it was 170
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
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 | 427 | 36.7 | 11.6:1 | 37% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 218 | 15 | 14.5:1 | 46% (100) |
| 2022-23 | 218 | 14.8 | 14.8:1 | 46% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 213 | 14 | 15.2:1 | 36% (77) |
| 2017-18 | 219 | 13.8 | 15.9:1 | 31% (67) |
| 2015-16 | 220 | 11 | 20.0:1 | 29% (63) |
| 2010-11 | 210 | 11 | 19.1:1 | 20% (41) |
| 2000-01 | 170 | 9 | 18.9:1 | 26% (45) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ruth Harman Academy.
Since 2017-18: students up 95% (219 to 427); teachers up 166% (13.8 to 36.7).
About Ruth Harman Academy
Federal records list Ruth Harman Academy as an elementary school in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The school offers kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 427 students. That puts enrollment 32% above the 323-student average for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
Ruth Harman Academy is part of Kenosha School District, where 41 schools serve 20,297 students.
More than half of the students at Ruth Harman Academy are White (56%). Beyond that, enrollment is 26% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, and 5% Asian. In Kenosha County overall, about 75% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 61%.
Its ratio of 11.6:1 is based on 36.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Wisconsin average 14.7:1, 3.1 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 37%. That is lower than the 48% average for public schools in Kenosha County.
Among Wisconsin public elementary schools, Ruth Harman Academy outscored 29%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Ruth Harman Academy is 54.9%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 52.3%.
The school's county is Kenosha County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $81,239 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Kenosha County number 56, with about 27,114 students.
Brompton School sits less than a tenth of a mile from Ruth Harman Academy. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Ruth Harman Academy ranks 4th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school counted 213 students in 2020-21 and 427 in 2024-25. A shift in the grades offered could account for part of the difference. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.2:1 to 11.6:1 over the same years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Ruth Harman Academy. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Kenosha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
168,438
Census ACS
Median income
$81,239
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
27,114 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kenosha School District
- Indian Trail High School and AcademyHigh · 1,902 students
- Bradford HighHigh · 1,453 students
- Tremper HighHigh · 1,417 students
- Mahone MiddleMiddle · 1,025 students
- Lakeview K-8 AcademyElementary · 988 students
- Lance MiddleMiddle · 899 students
Other schools in Kenosha
- Indian Trail High School and AcademyHigh · 1,902 students
- Bradford HighHigh · 1,453 students
- Tremper HighHigh · 1,417 students
- Mahone MiddleMiddle · 1,025 students
- Lakeview K-8 AcademyElementary · 988 students
- Lance MiddleMiddle · 899 students
Nearby schools
- Brompton School0.0 mi · 218
- Vernon Elementary0.0 mi · 249
- Tremper High0.3 mi · 1,417
- Grewenow Elementary0.9 mi · 310
- Jeffery Elementary1.0 mi · 338
- Southport Elementary1.2 mi · 438
Frequently asked questions
About Ruth Harman AcademyHow large is Ruth Harman Academy?
Ruth Harman Academy enrolls approximately 427 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Ruth Harman Academy serve?
Ruth Harman Academy serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Ruth Harman Academy?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at Ruth Harman Academy.
How diverse is Ruth Harman Academy?
Ruth Harman Academy reports a student body of 56% White, 26% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Ruth Harman Academy?
Ruth Harman Academy is overseen by Kenosha School District in Kenosha County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.