Heritage Middle School

Set in Ringgold, Georgia, Heritage Middle School is an average-sized middle-grades school, operated by Catoosa County. It caters to 858 students across grades 6 through 8.

Across the 16 schools in Catoosa County (10,134 students total), Heritage Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Heritage Middle School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Catoosa County's rate of about 58%.

After controlling for student poverty, Heritage Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.7%; this one delivers 58.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Catoosa County shows median household income runs about $74,639, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Heritage Middle School is one of 16 public schools in Catoosa County (combined enrollment of about 10,134 students).

Nearest neighbor: Heritage High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Heritage Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

Heritage Middle School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 919 students in 2018 compared to 858 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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