Heritage High School

Set in Conyers, Georgia, Heritage High School is a roomy 9-12 campus, operated by Rockdale County. It serves 1,788 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 60% larger than the state mean of about 1,120.

Within Rockdale County, which oversees 18 schools and 15,342 students, Heritage High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Heritage High School shows that Black students make up the majority at 63%. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Rockdale County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Heritage High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.6%; actual is 20.9%, a gap of -17.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Rockdale County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,247 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Heritage High School is one of 19 public schools in Rockdale County (combined enrollment of about 15,355 students).

The closest other public school is Sims Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heritage High School. On composite proficiency, Heritage High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 1,776 students in 2018 compared to 1,788 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 18% to 8%.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.