Middle · Illinois
Independence Jr High School
Independence Jr High School, a public middle school in Palos Heights, Illinois: grades 6–8, 236 students, 10.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Palos Heights SD 128.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 236
- Teachers (FTE)
- 21.6
- Students per teacher
- 10.9
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 80% of middle schools in Illinois
Median 12.7 · 689 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 85% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 75% of middle schools in Illinois
Median 428 · 691 schools compared
Smaller than 83% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Palos Heights SD 128
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Palos Heights SD 128.
Location
- Address
- 6610 W Highland Dr, Palos Heights, IL 60463
- Phone
- (708)448-0737
- City or town
- Palos Heights
- County
- Cook County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Nathan Hale Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 334 | 11.1 |
| 6–8 | 717 | 14.6 | |
Worth Jr High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 330 | 11.8 |
Elden D Finley Jr High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 405 | 11.6 |
Prairie Jr High SchoolFree meals for all | 7–8 | 303 | 11.4 |
| 6–8 | 490 | 14.8 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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