Heritage Elementary

Heritage Elementary is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in Lodi, California, operated by Lodi Unified, educateing 432 students in grades K through 6.

Within Lodi Unified, which oversees 46 schools and 27,047 students, Heritage Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Heritage Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment; the rest reads as 18% Asian, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Heritage Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Joaquin County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Heritage Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.9%; this one delivers 30.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Joaquin County) logs that median household earnings sit near $92,179, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Heritage Elementary is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

Clyde W. Needham Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Heritage Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Heritage Elementary's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 531 (now 432). Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 25.4:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Heritage Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.