Heritage Elementary School

Heritage Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community in Macon, Georgia, part of Bibb County. The school teaches 524 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Heritage Elementary School is one of 35 schools operated by Bibb County, a district that enrolls 21,334 students overall.

On demographics, Heritage Elementary School records that Black students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder reads as 18% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bibb County as a whole is about 55% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 61% of students at Heritage Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Heritage Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.7%; Heritage Elementary School posts 31.5%, -14.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bibb County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $51,234 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Across Bibb County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,725 students), Heritage Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Weaver Middle School, roughly 1.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Heritage Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 18.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heritage Elementary School has contracted 32%, going from 765 students in 2018 to 524 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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