Heritage Elementary School

Heritage Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools within Fulton County, enrolls 597 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Fulton County comprises 107 schools with combined enrollment of 87,563 students; Heritage Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Heritage Elementary School logs that 82% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Heritage Elementary School reports 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Fulton County's rate of about 62%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heritage Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 21.2%.

Around the school, Fulton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which Heritage Elementary School is one.

Skyview High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Heritage Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.9%.

Heritage Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Heritage Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 642 (now 597). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 94% to 82%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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