Heritage High

Set in Leesburg, Virginia, Heritage High is a high-enrollment combined-grade school, part of Loudoun County Public Schools. It serves 1,475 students across grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 76% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Loudoun County Public Schools comprises 98 schools with combined enrollment of 81,486 students; Heritage High is among them.

Demographically, Heritage High shows that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Loudoun County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Heritage High reports 135 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Heritage High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Loudoun County's rate of about 28%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heritage High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.1%, the actual is 73.4%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Loudoun County) logs that median household earnings sit near $181,765, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Loudoun County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,486 students), Heritage High is one campus in the mix.

J. Lupton Simpson Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Heritage High at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 74.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Heritage High's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,417 (now 1,475). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 54% to 42% over that span.

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