Heritage Middle School

Heritage Middle School, a heavily attended middle-grades school in LIVINGSTON, New Jersey, part of Livingston Board of Education School District, enrolls 994 students, covering grades 7 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Heritage Middle School sits 72% larger than that benchmark.

Within Livingston Board of Education School District, which oversees 9 schools and 6,352 students, Heritage Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Heritage Middle School reports that 45% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 39% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 6% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Heritage Middle School shows 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

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 64.9%, the actual is 71.8%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Heritage Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Burnet Hill Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heritage Middle School. On composite proficiency, Heritage Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 76.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heritage Middle School has increased 4%, going from 959 students in 2018 to 994 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 61% to 39%.

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