Summary:
Zip code 62644 has one high school, Havana High School, serving grades 9–12 with 249 students, so families have one local high school rather than a choice among area schools. Its grade 9 ELA result is close to Illinois levels, but grade 10 mathematics is notably lower. The largest current reported gap is in grade 11 ACT science: 27% of students were proficient, compared with 48% statewide, a difference of 21 percentage points.
Havana High School’s strongest current comparison is grade 9 ELA: 61.8% proficient versus 61.5% statewide, a 0.3-point lead. Its weakest PreACT comparison is grade 10 mathematics, at 23% versus 36% statewide, or 14 points below. Grade 10 science is also below the state, at 42% versus 48%, while grade 11 ACT ELA and mathematics results were suppressed by the state and are unknown, not zero. Other reported measures are a 87% graduation rate versus 90% statewide and chronic absenteeism of 26% versus 24% statewide.
Grade 10 results improved substantially from 2024–25 to 2025–26: proficiency rose 11 points in ELA, 12 in mathematics and 15 in science. The gaps with Illinois narrowed in each subject, though mathematics remained 14 points behind. Grade 9 had a more mixed year: ELA’s earlier 8-point lead over the state narrowed to a 0.3-point lead, while its mathematics gap widened to 6 points below. SchoolDigger places the school at the 39th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–26, down from the 55th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–24. For context, its 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 11.4, and 47% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results.
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