Heritage Elementary School

Set in Lima, Ohio, Heritage Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Lima City. It instructs 448 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Lima City runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,370 students. Heritage Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Heritage Elementary School logs that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% White, 21% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Heritage Elementary School logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Heritage Elementary School is one of 36 public schools in Allen County (combined enrollment of about 14,579 students).

Independence Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heritage Elementary School.

Heritage Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 433 students in 2018 compared to 448 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 36% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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