NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Harrisonville, MO

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

7 public K-12 schools in Harrisonville from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

2,196

Students

45.4/100

Avg Resource Index

12.3:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact system with teacher-dense staffing

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Harrisonville has more public-school enrollment than 16% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Harrisonville is a comparatively small school market by total enrollment, yet its average student-teacher ratio is lower than most cities in the national comparison set. Small scale can make that staffing pattern easier to sustain, but it can also limit the breadth of specialized programs available at any one campus. The school list below shows whether students are concentrated in one combined-grade campus or distributed across separate elementary, middle, and high-school settings.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Harrisonville's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Harrisonville lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 9 to 734 students, a 82-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment: Top 84%
School count: Top 65%
Resource Index average: 72nd percentile
Teacher staffing: 86th percentile

Harrisonville High accounts for 33.4% of all Harrisonville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Harrisonville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Harrisonville school enrollment varies 82× across entities

Harrisonville school enrollment ranges from 9 students (lowest) to 734 students (highest), a spread of 725 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Harrisonville student-teacher ratio is 12.3:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Everett Wade Juvenile Ctr.	60	10	Combined	Harrisonville R-Ix
2.	Mceowen Elem.	51	271	elementary	Harrisonville R-Ix
3.	Harrisonville Middle	50	502	middle	Harrisonville R-Ix
4.	Harrisonville Elem.	47	427	elementary	Harrisonville R-Ix
5.	Harrisonville High	37	734	high	Harrisonville R-Ix
6.	Briarwood School	37	9	Combined	Mo Schls for the Sev Disabled
7.	Early Childhood Ctr.	36	243	Combined	Harrisonville R-Ix

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Harrisonville

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Harrisonville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Everett Wade Juvenile Ctr. has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Harrisonville schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Harrisonville, MO? ▼

Harrisonville has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,196 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.