NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Harvard, IL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

5 public K-12 schools in Harvard from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

2,532

Students

33.8/100

Avg Resource Index

13.1:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Harvard has more public-school enrollment than 21% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Harvard's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Harvard's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Harvard's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 21st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 78th percentile. The 57-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment: Top 79%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 21st percentile
Teacher staffing: 78th percentile

Harvard High School accounts for 32.2% of all Harvard public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Harvard-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Harvard school enrollment varies 5.4× across entities

Harvard school enrollment ranges from 150 students (lowest) to 815 students (highest), a spread of 665 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Harvard operates one school district — a single-district system

Harvard's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Harvard student-teacher ratio is 13.1:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Jefferson Elem School	48	319	elementary	Harvard Cusd 50
2.	Harvard High School	37	815	high	Harvard Cusd 50
3.	Harvard Jr High School	33	593	middle	Harvard Cusd 50
4.	Crosby Elem Sch	29	655	elementary	Harvard Cusd 50
5.	Washington Elem School	22	150	Combined	Harvard Cusd 50

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Harvard

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Harvard school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Jefferson Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Harvard schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Harvard, IL? ▼

Harvard has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,532 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.