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Troy Heritage Trail School
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Troy Heritage Trail School
As a mid-sized elementary school in Joliet, Illinois, Troy Heritage Trail School works with 480 students from grades K through 4, run under Troy CCSD 30C. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Troy Heritage Trail School sits 26% above that benchmark.
Troy CCSD 30C comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,971 students; Troy Heritage Trail School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Troy Heritage Trail School shows that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 31% White, 22% Black, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Troy Heritage Trail School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of +0.7 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Will County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Will County runs 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), of which Troy Heritage Trail School is one.
Marycrest Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Troy Heritage Trail School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.0%.
Troy Heritage Trail School operates from a residential location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Troy Heritage Trail School has ticked up 8%, going from 444 students in 2018 to 480 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 41% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.
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