Heartland Elementary School

Heartland Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, overseen by Hardin County, with 564 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 34% larger than typical.

Heartland Elementary School is one of 26 schools operated by Hardin County, a district that works with 14,583 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Heartland Elementary School reports that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% multiracial, 9% Black, 9% Hispanic, 4% Asian. By comparison, Hardin County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Heartland Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heartland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.2%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hardin County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,647 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Hardin County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,037 students), of which Heartland Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elizabethtown High School, around 2.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Heartland Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.6%.

Heartland Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heartland Elementary School has ticked down 14%, going from 655 students in 2018 to 564 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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