Ruth Harman Academy

Ruth Harman Academy is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Kenosha, Wisconsin, overseen by Kenosha School District, with 427 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 32% bigger than typical.

Within Kenosha School District, which oversees 41 schools and 20,297 students, Ruth Harman Academy is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Ruth Harman Academy logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Ruth Harman Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Kenosha County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, Ruth Harman Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.9%; this one delivers 52.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kenosha County) reports that median household earnings sit near $81,239, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Kenosha County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), of which Ruth Harman Academy is one.

Brompton School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ruth Harman Academy. On composite proficiency, Ruth Harman Academy comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ruth Harman Academy has climbed 95%, going from 219 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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