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Schools in Harmon · Amboy Community Unit School District 272

Harmon’s public schools score below 62% of Illinois districts

The public schools Harmon’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 62% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

39%beats similar-income towns
Reading proficiency
26%
▼ 5 pts vs IL 31%
2020–21
Math proficiency
22%
▼ 4 pts vs IL 26%
2020–21
Graduate on time
84%
▼ 3 pts vs IL 87%
class of 2018
Spent per student
$18.5K
▼ 14% vs IL $21.6K
FY2024
Schools
0
The School Grade

How Harmon compares

B− Test scoresC− Graduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 38%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,431)Better than 39%
Good confidence. Built on 358 tested students and a graduating class of 56; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change it.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Illinois’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2018.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Illinois only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

Where will my kid go?

Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Harmon.

The path, start to finish
PK–4Amboy Central Elem Schoolin Amboy
5–8Amboy Jr High Schoolin Amboy
9–12Amboy High Schoolin Amboy

The district

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Test scores · 2020–21

Below the state in reading

Reading26%
State average 30.7%
Math22%
State average 25.8%

Every school in Harmon

0 schools. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.

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Within reach

Colleges near Harmon

There’s no college in Harmon, but 2 are within 30 miles. The closest is Sauk Valley Community College in Palmyra, 6.9 miles away.

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Sauk Valley Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Palmyra
6.9 mi1,226 students
Morrison Institute of TechnologyCommunity college · Private nonprofit · Morrison
21.8 mi54 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Harmon. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.

School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Illinois. Stars are from neighbors.

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