Summary:
Chicago Heights School District 170 has only one middle school, Chicago Heights Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school has consistently performed in the bottom third of Illinois middle schools, ranking 1014 out of 1368 in the 2024-2025 school year and 950 out of 1363 in the 2023-2024 school year. With a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger, the school is performing significantly below average compared to other Illinois middle schools.
Academically, Chicago Heights Middle School struggles, with only 36.4% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts and 15.9% proficient or better in Mathematics, compared to state averages of 53.1% and 38.5%, respectively. The school's performance in Science, with 23.7% of 8th-grade students proficient or better, is also significantly lower than the state average of 45.4%. Additionally, the school has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4%, which is higher than the state average.
Despite the district spending $22,288 per student, which is significantly higher than the state average, and having a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.4, the school's academic outcomes remain poor. This suggests that the resources may not be effectively utilized to address the underlying challenges faced by the student population, which has a very high percentage (98.96%) of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage.
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