The 2021 Illinois Report Card, an annual report released by the Illinois State Board of Education, backed away from giving each district a designation this fall after an unusual 2020-2021 school year due to COVID-19.
The report, though, continues to break down each district’s finances, expenditures per student, teacher retention, attendance, enrollment, and salaries in an attempt to help constituents gauge the district’s progress.
With 354 students, enrollment at Heritage has dipped since 2018 when the district had 481 students.
The district has 39.3-percent low-income students, which is down from 43-percent in 2020.
The district spends $17,000 per student enrolled.
At $4,896,541 Evidence-Based Funding Resources, Heritage is at 95-percent capacity to meet the $5,145,517 Adequacy Target.
The Heritage School District, which has a total of 35 teachers, has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1. The state average is also 18.1.
The teacher retention rate, the 3-year average percentage of teachers returning to work, is at 91-percent.
Teachers at Heritage see a lower salary than their state-wide counterparts.
Currently, on average, Heritage teachers are paid $50,951 per year. The state average is $70,705.
Heritage is above the state average of administration to student ratio. The state average of admins to students was 157:1, and the ratio is 118:1 at Heritage.
Average administrator pay is below the state average. In 2021, Heritage made an average of $102,325 whereas the state administrators made an average of $114,208.
