Heritage Elementary School

As a moderately sized primary school in Marion, Ohio, Heritage Elementary School instructs 483 students from grades K through 5, overseen by River Valley Local.

River Valley Local comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,821 students; Heritage Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Heritage Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest comes out to 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Heritage Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Heritage Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Marion County put the typical household earns roughly $59,371 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Marion County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,492 students), Heritage Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Tri-Rivers Career Center, roughly 1.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heritage Elementary School has contracted 3%, going from 497 students in 2018 to 483 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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