Heritage Elementary School

Located at 219 WATKINS BLVD, in HIGHLAND, Michigan, Heritage Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school that enrolls 448 students (grades K through 5), operated by Huron Valley Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 21% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Huron Valley Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 7,372 students. Heritage Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Heritage Elementary School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Heritage Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.6%; this one delivers 46.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Heritage Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Milford High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heritage Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Heritage Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Heritage Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 529 (now 448). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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