Summary:
Harvard, Illinois, has one listed middle school, Harvard Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 with 593 students. In 2025–2026, 36% of students were proficient in all-grade English Language Arts (ELA), compared with 56% statewide; in math, 12% were proficient, compared with 40% statewide. The most important finding is that math has the largest state shortfall: 28 percentage points, compared with 21 points in ELA.
There are no schools to compare within the area: Harvard Junior High is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school list. Within the school, 7th grade stands out, with the strongest results in both subjects: 39% proficient in ELA and 16% in math, versus 32% and 9%, respectively, in 6th grade. Eighth-grade results were 36% in ELA and 10% in math. ELA is the school’s stronger all-grade subject, while math is its weakest; 8th-grade science was 30% proficient, compared with 52% statewide.
Results improved year over year, but the school’s progress differed by subject: ELA rose 2 points while the state rose 3, widening the gap from 20 to 21 points; math rose 3 points while the state rose 1, narrowing its gap from 29 to 28 points. Eighth-grade science gained 1 point, while the state gained 7, so that gap widened from 16 to 22 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 1,055th of 1,126 statewide, at the 6th percentile, compared with the 19th percentile in each of the prior two years. Other context includes an 11.6 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, 60% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and 17% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, below the district’s 20% and the state’s 24%. Because only one school and two years of test results are included, these figures cannot show a school-to-school pattern or establish a long-term trend.
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