Chicago Heights Middle School

Chicago Heights Middle School is a junior high of heavily attended scale in Chicago Hts, Illinois, operated by Chicago Heights SD 170, enrolling 872 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Chicago Heights Middle School sits 89% above that benchmark.

Chicago Heights SD 170 comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 2,674 students; Chicago Heights Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Chicago Heights Middle School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder reads as 31% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 92% of students at Chicago Heights Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Chicago Heights Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Chicago Heights Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Bloom High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chicago Heights Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 33.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

On the community side, the feed for Chicago Heights Middle School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.