Heir Force Community School

Heir Force Community School is a low-enrollment primary school in Lima, Ohio, part of Heir Force Community School. The school caters to 204 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 404.

Heir Force Community School is the operating authority for Heir Force Community School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Heir Force Community School lists that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 22% multiracial, 21% White, 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 34.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Allen County) records that median household income runs about $64,038, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Allen County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,579 students), Heir Force Community School is one campus in the mix.

West Central Learning Academy II is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Heir Force Community School operates from an urban location. Heir Force Community School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 242 students in 2018 compared to 204 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 34.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.