Heritage

As a medium-sized elementary school in Phelan, California, Heritage serves 563 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Snowline Joint Unified. That puts it 21% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Snowline Joint Unified comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 8,074 students; Heritage is among them.

Looking at the student body, Heritage lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 37% White, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Heritage higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Heritage tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.8%.

Around the school, San Bernardino County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,478, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Heritage is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mojave River Academy - Marble City, around 2.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heritage. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Heritage at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 24.1%.

Heritage operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Heritage's enrollment has edged up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 563). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 24% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 today.

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