HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in DELTONA, Florida, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is an average-sized 6-8 campus, run under VOLUSIA. It caters to 932 students across grades 6 through 8.

Within VOLUSIA, which oversees 87 schools and 61,765 students, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 39% White, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Volusia County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of -5.7 points.

In the broader community, Volusia County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,044 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Volusia County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), of which HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 1,162 students in 2018 compared to 932 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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