Herget Middle School

Set in Aurora, Illinois, Herget Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school, part of Aurora West USD 129. It serves 594 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Herget Middle School sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

Aurora West USD 129 runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 11,020 students. Herget Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Herget Middle School logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 29% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Herget Middle School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Herget Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Herget Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.6%; this one delivers 40.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kane County) logs that median household earnings sit near $103,163, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Herget Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Hall Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Herget Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Herget Middle School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 35.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 722 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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