HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in TAMPA, Florida, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. Current enrollment sits at 482 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 20% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 32%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 21% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.6%.

Around the school, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household earnings sit near $79,540, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

The closest other public school is PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 2.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.0%.

HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 30% since 2018, when it stood at 690 (now 482).

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