Heritage Elementary School

Located at 11775 County Line Rd, in Madison, Alabama, Heritage Elementary School is a sizable elementary campus that hosts 869 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Madison City. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 81% bigger than typical.

Madison City runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 13,046 students. Heritage Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Heritage Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 19% Black, 13% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Heritage Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.4%, the actual is 81.6%, a residual of +16.2 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Madison County put median household earnings sit near $86,499, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Heritage Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Liberty Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Heritage Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Heritage Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 912 (now 869). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Heritage Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.