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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 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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
As a medium-sized primary school in KELLER, Texas, HERITAGE EL enrolls 529 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by KELLER ISD.
Across the 42 schools in KELLER ISD (32,042 students total), HERITAGE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, HERITAGE EL lists that 28% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 27% White, 24% Black, 12% Asian, 9% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Tarrant County as a whole.
On the resource side, HERITAGE EL lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, HERITAGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of -13.0 points.
Zooming out to the county, Tarrant County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which HERITAGE EL is one.
FOSSIL RIDGE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HERITAGE EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HERITAGE EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.3%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HERITAGE EL has remained close to its prior level, going from 529 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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