Heritage Middle School

Heritage Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in Summit, Illinois, one of the schools within Summit SD 104. The school caters to 447 students in grades 6 through 8.

Summit SD 104 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,435 students; Heritage Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Heritage Middle School records that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 7% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Heritage Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Heritage Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heritage Middle School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 14.4%; Heritage Middle School posts 33.7%, +19.3 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Heritage Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Otis P Graves Elem School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Heritage Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Heritage Middle School's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 557 (now 447). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.