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.
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