Heard Elementary School

Heard Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary campus in Savannah, Georgia, operated by Savannah-Chatham County, educates 636 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Savannah-Chatham County runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 36,355 students. Heard Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Heard Elementary School lists that Black students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 17% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Chatham County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heard Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Chatham County shows median household income runs about $71,097, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Chatham County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), Heard Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is UHS of Savannah Coastal Harbor Treatment Center, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Heard Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

Heard Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heard Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 639 students in 2018 to 636 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 25% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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