Heritage Elementary School

Size

Heritage Elementary School is the largest of La Porte ISD's 7 elementary schools; its 667 students are 9.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 562 students, so Heritage Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 4 with 127 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 4, against an average of 95 per grade. This year grade 5 has 30% more students than kindergarten (125 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 4 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 74.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across La Porte ISD (55.4%). White students are next, at 20.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 48.3% across La Porte ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

Heritage Elementary School has 36.99 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 667 students would have about 45.1 teachers, so Heritage Elementary School has 8.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

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 College Park Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 20 elementary schools within 5 miles and 91 within 10 miles.

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