Heard Elementary School

As a reasonably sized primary school in Macon, Georgia, Heard Elementary School instructs 596 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Bibb County.

Across the 35 schools in Bibb County (21,334 students total), Heard Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Heard Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 38% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Heard Elementary School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heard Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 38.2%, a residual of -10.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bibb County put the typical household earns roughly $51,234 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Across Bibb County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,725 students), Heard Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Porter Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Heard Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Heard Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 22.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 577 students in 2018 compared to 596 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 55% to 38%.

On this page, members of the Heard Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.