Harrison Elementary

Set in Green River, Wyoming, Harrison Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school, operated by Sweetwater County School District #2. It works with 208 students across grades K through 5.

Within Sweetwater County School District #2, which oversees 9 schools and 2,286 students, Harrison Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Harrison Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Sweetwater County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Sweetwater County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harrison Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 69.3%, a residual of +8.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Sweetwater County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,034 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Sweetwater County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,075 students), of which Harrison Elementary is one.

Expedition Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Harrison Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harrison Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 53.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harrison Elementary has decreased 15%, going from 244 students in 2018 to 208 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 89% to 83% over that span.

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