Public school / High
Heritage High
Newport News, Virginia
- NCES ID
- 510264001451
- District
- Newport News City Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Heritage High is a public high school in Newport News, Virginia, run by Newport News City Public Schools. It enrols 1,111 students — the 6898th largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,111
Teachers
79.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
85.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Newport News City Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Woodside High1,807 students
- 2Menchville High1,788 students
- 3Warwick High1,645 students
- 4Denbigh High1,225 students
- 5Ethel M. Gildersleeve Middle1,130 students
- 6Heritage High1,111 students
- 7Ella J. Fitzgerald Middle1,060 students
- 8Mary Passage Middle944 students
- Enrollment+91.9%
- Teachers+102.6%
- Students per teacher+0.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+28.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory