Heritage CUSD 8

Heritage CUSD 8 has two schools serving grades K–12, with 391 students: Heritage Junior High and Elementary School serves K–8, and Heritage High School serves grades 9–12. Their test results are not a direct school-to-school comparison because the schools serve different grades and report different assessments. The clearest strength across the district is the junior high and elementary school’s above-state results: in 2025–26, its all-grades English Language Arts proficiency was 68%, 12 points above the state, and mathematics was 49%, 9 points above.

Heritage Junior High and Elementary stands out for broadly strong results against the state, with reported grade-level English Language Arts results above state rates by 2 to 29 points and mathematics results above by as much as 25 points; grade 6 mathematics was just 0.1 point higher. At Heritage High School, 10th-grade 2025–26 proficiency was above state rates in all three subjects: English Language Arts by 17 points, mathematics by 14 and science by 14. The clearest weak spot is 9th-grade mathematics, at 32% compared with 42% statewide, or 10 points lower. Ninth-grade English Language Arts was 16 points above the state, while science was 5 points above.

Results over time show improvement in some areas, but not across the board. The junior school’s all-grades advantage over the state widened from 7 to 12 points in English Language Arts and from 5 to 9 points in mathematics between 2024–25 and 2025–26. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for the high school climbed from 31 in 2023–24 to 79 in 2024–25 and 80 in 2025–26; the junior school’s percentiles were 65, 65 and 63. High school grade-level test results were mixed year to year, including declines in 9th grade and gains in 10th grade. In 2024–25, student-teacher ratios were similar—10.5 and 10.7—and free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 44% at the junior school and 48% at the high school. These are context measures, not explanations for achievement differences.