Harry E Fry School, Burbank IL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Harry E Fry School

Harry E Fry School is a small elementary school in Burbank, Illinois, serving kindergarten through fifth grade. The school enrolls a student body that is predominantly Hispanic, with smaller populations of white, multiracial, and Asian students. The school sits within Burbank School District 111, a southwest Chicago suburb marked by working- and middle-class residential neighborhoods mixed with commercial corridors along its eastern and western edges.

The district has recently restructured its grade configuration. Elementary schools like Fry now serve only through fifth grade, with all sixth, seventh, and eighth graders moving to Liberty Junior High School, which was expanded in 2021 and again underwent facility improvements including the addition of science labs and specialized classrooms. This means families with children at Fry will experience a transition to junior high after fifth grade rather than staying in their elementary building through eighth.

State assessment data from the most recent year shows the school's academic performance. In English language arts, proficiency rates range from about one-third to approximately two-thirds across the grades tested, with fifth grade performing notably higher than third grade. Math proficiency is lower, clustering in the low to mid-range across tested grades. Science proficiency in fifth grade stands at approximately one-third. The school's overall proficiency index places it below the midpoint when compared with other districts in Cook County.

A parent may want to look into the school's specific instructional supports and intervention strategies, particularly in mathematics, where proficiency rates are notably low. The district's recent adoption of a new English language arts curriculum at the junior high level, which includes resources aligned with state assessments, suggests a systematic focus on test preparation as students advance.

The school itself is small, with an enrollment of fewer than four hundred students spread across seven grade levels. Enrollment data on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was not available, so a parent interested in understanding the school's economically vulnerable population should ask the school directly. Similarly, counts of students with IEPs or English learners were not reported in the available data.

Burbank itself is a built-out mature suburb with minimal new construction. Home values in the area are modest relative to the broader Chicago region, and housing is described as among the more attainable single-family options near the city's outer limits. The community has parks, a public library, and nearby access to highways and Midway Airport, though residents experience some ambient noise and vibration from a nearby railyard and airport activity. The town's civic life is distributed along commercial corridors and through park district programming rather than concentrated in a traditional downtown.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 321%

School 21% · District 46% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 430%

School 30% · District 30% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 26% · ▲ 3 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 332%

School 32% · District 46% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 449%

School 49% · District 44% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 563%

School 63% · District 56% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Science

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 28% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

This schoolBurbank SD 111, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income35%Higher-income54%19 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income22%Higher-income54%33 pp gap