Heritage School District recieves commendable status on Illinois Report Card

Heritage High School School District and Heritage Junior High and Grade School received “commendable” designations on the 2023 Illinois Report Card. 

The 2023 Report Card is based on data collected in the fall of 2022. 

The report shows that chronic absenteeism, meaning students who miss 10-percent or more of school with or without a valid excuse, is at 33-percent. 

The district spends roughly $15,000 per student enrolled. 

The teacher retention rate, the 3-year average percentage of teachers returning to work at Heritage is 94-percent. 

On average, teachers within the Heritage School District see a lower salary than their state-wide counterparts. This has held true at least since 2015.

The district had a total of 377 students. 

At the high school level, 39-percent of students are proficient in ELA; 15-percent in math; and 62-percent in science. Heritage Junior High and Grade School students are 47-percent proficient in ELA; 33-percent in math; and 82-percent in science.