Heritage Middle School

Heritage Middle School operates as a reasonably sized intermediate school in Lansing, Illinois, part of Sunnybrook SD 171. Current enrollment sits at 500 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Heritage Middle School is one of 2 schools operated by Sunnybrook SD 171, a district that educates 1,025 students overall.

Demographically, Heritage Middle School reports that 78% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Heritage Middle School shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heritage Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Heritage Middle School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nathan Hale Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Heritage Middle School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 25.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heritage Middle School has held roughly steady, going from 500 students in 2018 to 500 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.