Heritage Elementary School

Size

Heritage Elementary School is the largest of Wentzville R-IV School District's 12 elementary schools; its 1,039 students are 5.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 572 students, so Heritage Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 5 with 193 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 49, against an average of 148 per grade. This year grade 5 has 41% more students than kindergarten (193 against 137). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 49 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 63% of enrollment, a lower share than across Wentzville R-IV (75%). Black students are next, at 15.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

33% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 16.2% across Wentzville R-IV and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 18.9% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Heritage Elementary School has 88.38 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 1,039 students would have about 84.5 teachers, so Heritage Elementary School has 3.9 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Stone Creek Elementary School, 2 miles away in the same district. There are 9 elementary schools within 5 miles and 27 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.