Heber

Heber is a middle-grades school of small scale in Heber, California, overseen by Heber Elementary, hosting 549 students in grades 5 through 8.

Across the 2 schools in Heber Elementary (1,155 students total), Heber accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Heber lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, Imperial County as a whole is about 86% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Heber lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.8:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Imperial County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Heber performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Imperial County shows median household earnings sit near $57,681, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Heber is one of 76 public schools in Imperial County (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students).

The closest other public school is Dogwood Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Heber ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 26.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Heber's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 657 (now 549). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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