Heritage Elementary School

Heritage Elementary School operates as a small primary school in PUEBLO, Colorado, part of Pueblo School District No. 60 in the county of Pueblo and. Current enrollment sits at 250 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Heritage Elementary School sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

Pueblo School District No. 60 in the county of Pueblo and comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 14,351 students; Heritage Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Heritage Elementary School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%; the rest consists of 25% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Pueblo County as a whole is about 42% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at Heritage Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pueblo County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Heritage Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.0%; this one delivers 22.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Pueblo County put median household earnings sit near $64,010, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Heritage Elementary School is one of 66 public schools in Pueblo County (combined enrollment of about 32,254 students).

The closest other public school is Central High School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Heritage Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Heritage Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 35% since 2018, when it stood at 382 (now 250). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.