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HERITAGE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 52 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Texas 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 Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HERITAGE EL
HERITAGE EL is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in HIGHLAND VILLAGE, Texas, part of LEWISVILLE ISD, with 476 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
HERITAGE EL is one of 62 schools operated by LEWISVILLE ISD, a district that educates 47,876 students overall.
Demographically, HERITAGE EL records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Denton County's rate of about 35%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HERITAGE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.2%; this one delivers 62.4%.
In the surrounding community, Denton County reports that median household income runs about $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which HERITAGE EL is one.
BRIARHILL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HERITAGE EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.8%.
HERITAGE EL operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 546 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.
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