Heritage Elementary School

Heritage Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Richlands, North Carolina, one of the schools within Onslow County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 565 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Heritage Elementary School sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Onslow County Schools comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 27,397 students; Heritage Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Heritage Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Onslow County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 53% 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, Heritage Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.7%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of -9.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Onslow County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,148, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Heritage Elementary School is one of 42 public schools in Onslow County (combined enrollment of about 27,501 students).

Nearest neighbor: Richlands High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Heritage Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Heritage Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Heritage Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 34% since 2018, when it stood at 852 (now 565). Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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