1
Alumni: what's one memory from HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
482
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087004087
HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
18201 E MEADOWS RD, TAMPA, FL 33647 · (813) 740-4580 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL482 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
219 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
60.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
66.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.5% | 66.9% |
| 2023-24 | 59.7% | 63.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (62.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 482 | 45.4% | 62.6% |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 510 | 44.7% | 60.0% |
| HOLIDAY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 460 | 42.4% | 54.3% |
| WATERLEAF ELEMENTARY JACKSONVILLE | 613 | 37.0% | 68.4% |
| PALM BEACH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BEACH GARDENS | 712 | 42.7% | 73.0% |
| KIMBALL WILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 741 | 45.2% | 63.2% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #741 of 2,136 | #48 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #781 of 2,149 ▲ 41 | #50 of 176 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #813 of 2,149 ▼ 87 | #51 of 176 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 482 | #1,487 of 2,267 | #124 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #122 of 2,077 | #7 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.8% | #11 of 2,108 | #7 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.4% | #1,433 of 2,188 | #107 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.1% | #191 of 1,374 | #17 of 124 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
482
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 602
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 482 | 37.6 | 12.8:1 | 45% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 526 | 34 | 15.5:1 | 48% (255) |
| 2022-23 | 489 | 37 | 13.2:1 | 46% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 489 | 37 | 13.2:1 | 58% (285) |
| 2017-18 | 690 | 53 | 13.0:1 | 49% (335) |
| 2015-16 | 672 | 53 | 12.7:1 | 49% (328) |
| 2010-11 | 602 | 45 | 13.4:1 | 50% (303) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a small elementary school in TAMPA, Florida. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 482 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Florida) has about 604 students.
HILLSBOROUGH is made up of 300 schools with 221,318 students in all.
HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 32%. The remaining students are 28% Black, 21% Hispanic, 11% Asian, and 7% multiracial. Among people living in Hillsborough County, the White share is about 51%. HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 76%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 37.6 full-time equivalents, or about 12.8 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in Florida, the typical ratio is 17.5:1. About 45% of students, or 219, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is close to the 43% average for public schools in Hillsborough County.
Test results at HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 4.2 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (62.6% actual, 58.4% predicted).
Across Hillsborough County, median household income is about $79,540, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 320 public schools in Hillsborough County.
The nearest other public school, PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 2.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th of 9 on average proficiency.
NCES assigns HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's size has been steady, with 489 students in 2020-21 and 482 in 2024-25.
To ask about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater, start a discussion on this page. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in TAMPA
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,398 students
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,391 students
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,181 students
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,130 students
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
Other Heritage Elementary schools
47 other US public schools in 24 states are named Heritage Elementary. HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 29th largest of the 48.
- HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLGREENACRES, FL · 817 students
- HERITAGE ELEMENTARYWENTZVILLE, MO · 1,039 students
- Heritage Elementary SchoolMadison, AL · 869 students
- Heritage Elementary SchoolGLENDALE, AZ · 832 students
- Heritage Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 807 students
Nearby schools
- PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 980
- BENITO MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 903
- HUNTER'S GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 788
- UNION PARK CHARTER ACADEMY2.8 mi · 803
- DR. JOHN LONG MIDDLE SCHOOL3.3 mi · 1,496
- WIREGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 957
Frequently asked questions
About HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 482 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 32% White, 21% Hispanic, 28% Black, 11% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.