1
Enrollment
994
Middle
DISTRICT 762 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LIVINGSTON BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340882002128
Heritage Middle School
20 FOXCROFT DR, LIVINGSTON, NJ 07039 · (973) 535-8000 · Essex County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL994 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of New Jersey public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
2%
23 students
DISTRICT 2% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 498 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 496 | 50% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Heritage Middle School→Livingston High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Livingston Board of Education School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
86.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
79.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.9% | 79.3% |
| 2023-24 | 85.9% | 76.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
71.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Heritage Middle School
Heritage Middle School's state test result (71.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Middle School this school | 994 | 2.3% | 71.8% |
| Millburn Middle School MILLBURN | 1,106 | 2.4% | 76.9% |
| William Annin Middle School Basking Ridge | 1,122 | 2.6% | 73.4% |
| Pond Road Middle School ROBBINSVILLE | 1,022 | 10.1% | 64.2% |
| Tenafly Middle School TENAFLY | 916 | 4.8% | 73.9% |
| Brooklawn Middle School Parsippany | 925 | 13.2% | 61.6% |
Matched among New Jersey middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Heritage Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #23 of 433 | #4 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #18 of 437 no change | #3 of 28 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.9% | #21 of 437 ▼ 3 | #3 of 28 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 994 | #32 of 445 | #2 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #328 of 417 | #22 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.3% | #123 of 419 | #11 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 2.3% | #413 of 436 | #25 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.6% | #90 of 122 | #6 of 11 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
994
-35 (-3%) vs 2020
+94% since 1990-91, when it was 513
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 994 | 82.4 | 12.1:1 | 2% (23) |
| 2023-24 | 1,004 | 84.4 | 11.9:1 | 3% (31) |
| 2022-23 | 1,009 | 84.6 | 11.9:1 | 2% (24) |
| 2020-21 | 1,029 | 83 | 12.4:1 | 2% (18) |
| 2017-18 | 959 | 75.6 | 12.7:1 | 2% (20) |
| 2015-16 | 962 | 78 | 12.3:1 | 2% (18) |
| 2010-11 | 916 | 57 | 16.1:1 | 1% (11) |
| 2000-01 | 709 | 53 | 13.4:1 | 1% (8) |
| 1990-91 | 513 | 42 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Heritage Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (959 to 994); teachers up 9% (75.6 to 82.4).
About Heritage Middle School
LIVINGSTON, New Jersey, is home to Heritage Middle School, a large middle school. It serves 994 students in grades 7 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in New Jersey average about 578 students.
Livingston Board of Education School District counts 6,352 students in its 9 schools, and Heritage Middle School is one of them.
Heritage Middle School has no majority group; Asian students are the largest, at 45%. The rest of enrollment is 39% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Asian share of Essex County's population at about 6%. Heritage Middle School's diversity index is 63%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.1:1, with 82.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 1.2 students per teacher above the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 2% of enrollment. That rate is below the 54% average among public schools in Essex County.
allk12 grades Heritage Middle School an A. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Heritage Middle School would score about 64.9%. It scores 71.8%, 6.9 points above that figure.
Essex County has about 863,002 residents, and the median household income is $80,789, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Besides Heritage Middle School, Essex County has 248 other public schools.
The closest other public school is Burnet Hill Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Heritage Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Heritage Middle School's average proficiency of 71.8% compares with 76.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The federal government classifies Heritage Middle School's location as Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, Heritage Middle School's enrollment dropped 3%, to 994.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Livingston Board of Education School District
- Livingston High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Mount Pleasant Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Riker Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 477 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
Other schools in LIVINGSTON
- Livingston High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Mount Pleasant Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Riker Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 477 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
Other Heritage Middle schools
19 other US public schools in 13 states are named Heritage Middle. Heritage Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 20.
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMERIDIAN, ID · 1,003 students
- Heritage MiddleWake Forest, NC · 947 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLDELTONA, FL · 932 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolRinggold, GA · 858 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolThompson Station, TN · 847 students
Nearby schools
- Burnet Hill Elementary School0.7 mi · 425
- Hillside Elementary School0.9 mi · 476
- Livingston High School1.1 mi · 2,081
- Riker Hill Elementary School1.2 mi · 477
- Collins Elementary School1.6 mi · 440
- Frank J Smith Elementary1.9 mi · 239
Frequently asked questions
About Heritage Middle SchoolHow large is Heritage Middle School?
Heritage Middle School enrolls approximately 994 students in grades 07-08.
Is Heritage Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Heritage Middle School is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many teachers does Heritage Middle School have?
Heritage Middle School employs 82 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Heritage Middle School?
At Heritage Middle School, the student body is approximately 39% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 45% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Heritage Middle School?
Heritage Middle School is overseen by Livingston Board of Education School District in Essex County.
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