Heritage Elementary

Heritage Elementary is an average-sized elementary-level community in Tulare, California, part of Tulare City. The school instructs 597 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Heritage Elementary sits 28% larger than that benchmark.

Heritage Elementary is one of 18 schools operated by Tulare City, a district that hosts 9,289 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Heritage Elementary shows that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 7% White, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the resource side, Heritage Elementary records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Heritage Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 24.5%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tulare County put the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Heritage Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

The closest other public school is Los Tules Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heritage Elementary. On composite proficiency, Heritage Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 585 students in 2018 compared to 597 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 24.9:1 today.

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