Heritage High School opened in August 2007 as the Perris Union High School District’s third comprehensive high school. The agriculture program at this school has had a very strong and growing agriculture program since that time. The program has grown from 200 students in its first year of operation to 602 students, roughly one-quarter of the schools population. During that time, the program also grew from one instructor to four.

The District applied for and received funding in the amount of $2.25 million for the agriculture program through the Career Technical Education (CTE) Proposition 1D competitive grant program. Together with matching funds, this $6.1 million state-of-the art Agricultural Research Center (ARC) was built. The project includes a 6,561 square foot Agriculture Science Building which will house two Animal Science Laboratories and one Research Laboratory. In addition to the main Agricultural Science Building, a greenhouse, shade house, rabbit barn, laying barn and finishing barn are also included within this project. The entire project is immersed within a plethora of outside land laboratory facilities including pastures, orchards, livestock breeding and growing areas.