Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Independence Junior High School, Palos Heights, IL
Independence Junior High School is a public middle school in Palos Heights, part of Palos Heights SD 128. It enrolled 236 students in 2024-25, with 11.2 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Independence Jr High School".
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 236
- Teachers (FTE)
- 21.0
- Students per teacher
- 11.2
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 2.0 lower than the district figure of 13.2. The Illinois average across schools is 13.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school11.2
District13.2
Illinois13.7
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 6610 W Highland Dr, Palos Heights, IL 60463
- Phone
- (708)448-0737
- District
- Palos Heights SD 128
- County
- Cook County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 173057003177
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.