HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a big 6-8 campus in Horace, North Dakota, operated by WEST FARGO 6. The school hosts 799 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 76% bigger than typical.

WEST FARGO 6 comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 13,175 students; HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Cass County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 13% of students at HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cass County (around 30%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cass County put median household earnings sit near $75,555, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Cass County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,826 students), of which HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

HORACE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

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

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