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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Heritage Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
592
Elementary
DISTRICT 583 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLENTANGY LOCAL·NCES 390467605474
Heritage Elementary School
679 Lewis Center Rd, Lewis Center, OH 43035 · (740) 657-4050 · Delaware County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL592 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Ohio public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
41 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 118 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 42% smaller than its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
88.6%
OH avg 59.8% . -1.2pp since 2021
Math
88.8%
OH avg 56.1% . +0.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.6% | 88.8% |
| 2023-24 | 89.8% | 90.5% |
| 2022-23 | 90.9% | 90.1% |
| 2021-22 | 89.8% | 88.4% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
89.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
86.2%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 86% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Heritage Elementary School
Heritage Elementary School's state test result (89.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Elementary School this school | 592 | 6.9% | 89.3% |
| Peachblow Crossing Elementary Lewis Center | 648 | 6.5% | N/A |
| Shale Meadows Elementary School Lewis Center | 724 | 9.4% | 89.8% |
| Glacier Ridge Elementary Dublin | 559 | 4.1% | 87.4% |
| Liberty Tree Elementary School Powell | 727 | 10.2% | 86.7% |
| Wyandot Elementary School Dublin | 483 | 3.9% | 85.8% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Heritage Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.3% | #55 of 673 | #5 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.8% | #116 of 1,569 ▼ 53 | #7 of 33 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.6% | #73 of 1,569 ▼ 4 | #5 of 33 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.4pp | #444 of 1,514 | #20 of 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 592 | #288 of 1,808 | #18 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.9:1 | #1,450 of 1,582 | #31 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #273 of 1,590 | #5 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.9% | #737 of 767 | #28 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.0% | #256 of 992 | #7 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
592
-109 (-16%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
was 20.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 592 | 27.1 | 21.9:1 | 7% (41) |
| 2023-24 | 640 | 27 | 23.7:1 | 9% (55) |
| 2022-23 | 751 | 29.6 | 25.4:1 | 4% (31) |
| 2020-21 | 701 | 34 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 740 | 33.5 | 22.1:1 | 6% (41) |
| 2015-16 | 650 | 32 | 20.3:1 | 8% (55) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Heritage Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (740 to 592); teachers down 19% (33.5 to 27.1).
About Heritage Elementary School
Federal records list Heritage Elementary School as an elementary school in Lewis Center, Ohio. In all, 592 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. It has 47% more students than the average for elementary schools in Ohio (about 404).
A total of 29 schools make up Olentangy Local, with 24,133 students enrolled.
The biggest share of students at Heritage Elementary School, 43%, is Asian. Next come 40% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, and 3% Hispanic. That compares with about 9% Asian among all Delaware County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 64%.
There are 27.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 21.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Ohio, 17.9:1, is lower. Of all students at Heritage Elementary School, 7% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Delaware County is 20%.
Heritage Elementary School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 82% of Ohio public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Heritage Elementary School, the prediction is 86.2% and the result is 89.3%.
The school is in Delaware County, where the median household earns about $133,540 a year, about 59% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 3%. Across Delaware County, 59 public schools serve about 44,100 students.
The closest school to Heritage Elementary School is Olentangy Shanahan Middle School, located about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Heritage Elementary School ranks 3rd of 5 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 89.3% against a local average of 86.5%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 16% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 21.9:1, from 20.6:1.
The allk12 page for Heritage Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,834
Census ACS
Median income
$133,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
44,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Olentangy Local
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- Olentangy Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Olentangy Berlin High SchoolHigh · 1,823 students
- Olentangy High SchoolHigh · 1,760 students
- Olentangy Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,056 students
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
Other schools in Lewis Center
- Olentangy High SchoolHigh · 1,760 students
- Olentangy Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,056 students
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
- Shale Meadows Elementary SchoolElementary · 724 students
- Alum Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 664 students
- Glen Oak Elementary SchoolElementary · 654 students
Other Heritage Elementary schools
47 other US public schools in 24 states are named Heritage Elementary. Heritage Elementary School is the 15th largest of the 48.
- Heritage Elementary SchoolMarion, OH · 483 students
- Heritage Elementary SchoolLima, OH · 448 students
- Heritage Elementary SchoolPickerington, OH · 396 students
- Heritage Elementary SchoolMedina, OH · 331 students
- HERITAGE ELEMENTARYWENTZVILLE, MO · 1,039 students
Nearby schools
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle School0.2 mi · 1,029
- Olentangy Shanahan Preschool0.3 mi · 188
- Olentangy High School0.3 mi · 1,760
- Shale Meadows Elementary School1.0 mi · 724
- Arrowhead Elementary School1.2 mi · 648
- Peachblow Crossing Elementary1.2 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Heritage Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Heritage Elementary School?
Heritage Elementary School enrolls approximately 592 students in grades PK-05.
Is Heritage Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Heritage Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Heritage Elementary School?
Approximately 21.9:1 students per teacher at Heritage Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Heritage Elementary School?
At Heritage Elementary School, the student body is approximately 40% White, 3% Hispanic, 6% Black, 43% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Heritage Elementary School public or private?
Heritage Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Olentangy Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.