Heritage Middle School

As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Westerville, Ohio, Heritage Middle School hosts 592 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Westerville City. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.

Westerville City runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 14,589 students. Heritage Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Heritage Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Delaware County (around 20%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Heritage Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.7%, the actual is 71.5%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Delaware County put the typical household earns roughly $133,540 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Heritage Middle School is one of 59 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students).

Robert Frost Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Heritage Middle School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 76.9%.

Heritage Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 42%: 1,024 students in 2018 compared to 592 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 39% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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