Summary:
Zip code 60102 has one listed high school, Harry D Jacobs High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 2,056 students, so it is the only school represented for local comparison. In 2025–2026, its proficiency rates were above state rates in all nine reported ACT and PreACT Secure subject-and-grade results. Graduation was 96%, compared with 90% statewide, and dropout was 1%, compared with 2%. The most important caution for families is that chronic absenteeism was 32%, higher than the 24% statewide rate.
Science is the school’s clearest academic strength, while mathematics has the narrowest advantage over state results. The average science advantage was 7 percentage points, compared with 3 points in math; the largest single gap was 9 points in grade 11 ACT science, and the smallest was 2 points in grade 11 ACT math. Since this is the only school in the list, there are no local top and bottom performers to compare. SchoolDigger rates the school 4 stars and ranks it 163rd of 620 Illinois schools, in the 74th percentile.
Results were mixed from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the school’s average across nine matched results dipped 0.1 point, less than the state average’s 0.4-point decline, and its average margin over the state edged up from 5.2 to 5.4 points. Grade 9 PreACT Secure math made the biggest gain, rising 10 points, while grade 10 PreACT Secure English language arts fell 6 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also varied, from 74th in 2023–2024 to 78th in 2024–2025 and back to 74th in 2025–2026. For context, the student-teacher ratio was 14.6 in 2024–2025, and 40% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year.
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