Summary:
Zip code 60097 has one listed school, Harrison Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 447 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades IAR results were below the state in both English language arts (ELA) and math: 46% versus 56% in ELA, and 26% versus 40% in math. Its grade 5 and grade 8 science results were also below state results. The most pronounced shortfall is eighth-grade ELA, where 35% were proficient compared with 63% statewide—a gap of 28 percentage points.
Because this list contains only one school, there are no local school-to-school leaders or trailers to compare. Within Harrison, third-grade ELA is a bright spot: 49% were proficient, about 1 point above the state’s 48%. By contrast, eighth-grade ELA is the clearest weak result relative to the state. The grade-level picture is uneven: ELA results in grades 4 through 7 were also below their state comparisons, though by less than the eighth-grade gap.
Results moved in different directions by subject. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA at Harrison rose 9 percentage points, and its gap to the state narrowed by 5 points. Math fell by 1 point as the state result rose, widening the gap by 2 points. Science improved in both tested grades, with the gap narrowing by about 1 point in each, though results remained below the state. SchoolDigger ranked the school 1,305th of 1,737 schools, at the 25th percentile with one star in 2025–2026; its reported percentile was 37 in each of the two prior years. For context, 56% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 11.3 that year.
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