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YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College High School

Public, Charter Grades 9-12
534th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 620 Illinois High Schools
Better than 14% of Illinois high schools
Summary

YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College High School is a small Chicago school serving grades 9–12, with 128 students. Its results show some local academic strengths, but serious concerns about students staying engaged and graduating. In 2025–2026, 28% of students graduated, compared with 83% districtwide and 90% statewide; the school had the lowest graduation rate among nearby schools with reported data. Chronic absenteeism was 92%, versus 39% districtwide and 24% statewide, the highest among nearby schools with results. The clearest concern for families is that very few students graduate while nearly all are chronically absent.

Academic results are mixed: 10th-grade math is a standout locally, while most reported scores fall below state levels. In 2024–2025, 29% of 10th-graders met the PreACT Secure math benchmark—5 points above the district and 5 below the state—and the school scored higher than every nearby school with a reported result. By contrast, 10th-grade ELA and science were each 9%, respectively 46 and 41 points below state results. On the 11th-grade ACT, ELA was 19%, math 2%, and science 19%; these were 33, 37, and 30 points below state results. Locally, however, the 11th-grade ELA score was above the nearby reported-peer average of 8%, illustrating that the school’s relative standing varies by subject and grade.

SchoolDigger rated the school 1 star and placed it at the 14th percentile in 2025–2026. That is an improvement from the 3rd percentile in 2018–2019, but down from a recent peak of the 18th percentile in 2023–2024. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for African American students was notably stronger than the overall ranking: the group was at the 43rd percentile in 2024–2025, compared with 16th overall. The 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 21.3, the highest among nearby schools with reported ratios, compared with a nearby average of 19.6. In that same school year, 89% were free/reduced lunch eligible, near the middle of nearby schools reporting this measure; these figures describe the school’s context, not the cause of its results.

128
Students ?
21.3
Student/teacher ratio ?
$21,208
Per pupil spending ?
89.1%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
98.5%
Measles protection (all grades) (2025-26)
 10001 S Woodlawn Ave
       Chicago, IL  60628-1645

(773) 291-6517

District: Chicago Public Schools District 299

Racial breakdown:

African American:
86.7%
Hispanic:
13.3%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Improving — 3rd percentile in 2019 → 14th in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is trending up — up 11 percentile points since 2019
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Illinois average (20% vs 46% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (14th percentile)
!Graduation rate below the Illinois average (28% vs 90%)
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school20%
District avg35%
Illinois avg46%
534th of 620
Illinois public high schools ?
Bottom 14%▲ up 10 pts since 2019
From bottom 3% (2019) to bottom 14% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
45th of 99High Schools in the Chicago Public Schools District 299
568th of 738Chicago Public Schools District 299 among Illinois districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202611.9534 of 62013.9%★☆☆☆☆
202515.3584 of 69816.3%★☆☆☆☆
202418.1569 of 69718.4%★☆☆☆☆
20238.7665 of 6994.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20227.7677 of 6993.1%☆☆☆☆☆
20197.1677 of 7013.4%☆☆☆☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202635.6100 of 18746.5%★★☆☆☆
202536.4184 of 32343.0%★★☆☆☆
202442.8131 of 29956.2%★★★☆☆
202322.1266 of 30111.6%★☆☆☆☆
202223.8241 of 29418.0%★☆☆☆☆
201920.5277 of 2997.4%☆☆☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202518.9554 of 68519.1%★☆☆☆☆
202412.4610 of 6648.1%☆☆☆☆☆
202310.2599 of 6568.7%☆☆☆☆☆
20229.0609 of 6587.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20196.5644 of 6653.2%☆☆☆☆☆

Homeless

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
201924.757 of 9137.4%★★☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202622.1385 of 47819.5%★☆☆☆☆
202524.1539 of 67219.8%★☆☆☆☆
202426.8472 of 63926.1%★☆☆☆☆
202311.0624 of 6443.1%☆☆☆☆☆
202213.8578 of 6267.7%☆☆☆☆☆
201911.7604 of 6395.5%☆☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202514.3600 of 68512.4%★☆☆☆☆
202424.7483 of 66827.7%★☆☆☆☆
202310.4611 of 6688.5%☆☆☆☆☆
20229.9620 of 6646.6%☆☆☆☆☆
20198.7626 of 6757.3%☆☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
201929.6306 of 47335.3%★☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
African American (2026)47th percentile+33 vs school
Homeless (2019)37th percentile+34 vs school
Special Education (2019)35th percentile+32 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)19th percentile+6 vs school
Female (2025)19th percentile+3 vs school
Male (2025)12th percentile-4 vs school
By subject vs Illinois (2025-2026) ?
Mathematics21%-18 vs state
Science19%-29 vs state

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Students at YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College High School are 87% African American, 13% Hispanic.

YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College High School ranks in the bottom 13.9% of Illinois high schools.

In the 2024-25 school year, 128 students attended YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College High School.

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Latest Illinois data All new data »
2025–26 school spending dataNewOct 30, 2026
2025–26 attendance data, dropout rates & graduation ratesNewOct 30, 2026
2025–26 ACT, IAR, ISA & PreACT Secure test scoresNewOct 30, 2026
2013–14 through 2025–26 immunization rates (updated)Oct 19, 2026


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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