Best Public Schools in Zip Code 60033

ZIP code 60033 has four schools in Harvard CUSD 50, serving kindergarten through grade 12: Crosby Elementary (K–3), Jefferson Elementary (grades 4–5), Harvard Junior High (grades 6–8) and Harvard High (grades 9–12). The most important area-wide finding is that every supplied school-and-grade test result is below its corresponding state result: in grades 3–8, ELA results are 18.6 to 27.5 points below the state, and math results are 20.4 to 29.8 points below.

Among the three schools with reported all-grades IAR results, Harvard Junior High leads in ELA at 36%, compared with 33% at Jefferson and 23% at Crosby; in math, Crosby leads at 19%, followed by Jefferson at 18% and Harvard Junior High at 12%. State results were 56% in ELA and 40% in math. These all-grades figures cover different grade spans, so they are not direct grade-for-grade comparisons. At Harvard High, grade 9 ELA was the closest result to its same-grade state comparison, at 52% versus 62%—10 points apart; grade 11 math was the largest gap, with 8% proficient, 32 points below the state.

Recent progress is mixed: Crosby’s all-grades IAR results rose 10 points in ELA and 8 in math, while Jefferson gained 9 and 5 points; Harvard Junior High gained 2 in ELA and 3 in math. SchoolDigger ranked Harvard High 524th of 620 Illinois high schools (15th percentile, 1 star), Harvard Junior High 1,055th of 1,126 middle schools (6th percentile, 0 stars), and Jefferson 1,624th of 1,737 elementary schools (7th percentile, 0 stars). For 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 64% at Crosby, 60% at Harvard Junior High, 56% at Jefferson and 45% at Harvard High; student-teacher ratios ranged from 9.3 at Jefferson to 11.6 at Harvard Junior High. These characteristics are context, not explanations for test results.