Harvard Jr High School

As a moderately sized middle school in Harvard, Illinois, Harvard Jr High School hosts 593 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Harvard CUSD 50. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Harvard Jr High School sits 28% larger than that benchmark.

Within Harvard CUSD 50, which oversees 5 schools and 2,532 students, Harvard Jr High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Harvard Jr High School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder breaks down as 26% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Harvard Jr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against McHenry County (around 35%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Harvard Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.0%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -13.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for McHenry County put median household earnings sit near $104,802, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Harvard Jr High School is one of 89 public schools in McHenry County (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students).

The closest other public school is Harvard High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Harvard Jr High School. On composite proficiency, Harvard Jr High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Harvard Jr High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 594 (now 593). Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.