Havana Jr High School

Havana Jr High School is a junior high of modestly sized scale in Havana, Illinois, one of the schools within Havana CUSD 126, works with 284 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 462.

Havana CUSD 126 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 819 students; Havana Jr High School is among them.

On demographics, Havana Jr High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder reads as 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Mason County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Havana Jr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 46.0%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Mason County put median household income runs about $62,845, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Mason County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,124 students), of which Havana Jr High School is one.

The closest other public school is Havana High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Havana Jr High School. On composite proficiency, Havana Jr High School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Havana Jr High School has fell 17%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 284 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Havana Jr High School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.