HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, a sizable junior high in LIBERTY, Missouri, run under LIBERTY 53, works with 757 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 64% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

LIBERTY 53 comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 11,826 students; HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black. Compared to Clay County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Clay County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 39.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Clay County shows median household income runs about $88,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

RIDGEVIEW ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 869 students in 2018 compared to 757 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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