Best Public Schools in Zip Code 62946

Schools in zip code 62946 include five schools—two elementary schools, a middle school and two high schools—with enrollment ranging from 42 to 491 students. Test results are available for Harrisburg High School, East Side Intermediate School and Harrisburg Middle School; School District 428 Iyc-Hrb has suppressed ACT results, and West Side Primary School has no test results supplied. The clearest area-wide academic concern is math: all five available 2025–26 school and grade comparisons were below state results, by an average of 12 points.

Harrisburg Middle stands out for ELA: its all-grades result was 68%, 11 points above the state and 16 points above East Side. In math, East Side was ahead of Harrisburg Middle by 16 points, though both were below the state. Harrisburg High had a bright spot in ninth-grade ELA, 5 points above the state; its grade-11 ACT results were below state results by 9 to 14 points across subjects. Chronic absenteeism was lowest at Harrisburg Middle, 19%, and highest at Harrisburg High, 31%, compared with the state’s 24%. These all-grades school comparisons cover different grade spans; West Side has no test results supplied, and Iyc-Hrb’s ACT results are suppressed.

Results relative to the state improved in 11 of 15 matched year-to-year comparisons, with an average improvement of 4 points, but some measures moved in the opposite direction. SchoolDigger’s percentile for Harrisburg High rose 2 points from 2023–24 to 2025–26, while East Side fell 19 and Harrisburg Middle fell 20. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible rates ranged from 60.5% to 66.8% at the four schools reporting that measure; Iyc-Hrb instead reports “all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility),” with no percentage. Student-teacher ratios ranged from 11.4 to 13.6 at the four larger Harrisburg schools, while Iyc-Hrb reported 3.8.