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We Are Hornets

Heritage Hornets are faculty, staff, students, and community members. We wear with pride our orange, blue and white.  We love, support, and protect each other with a strong devotion!

Our Mission Statement

The Heritage Hornet Mission Statement is: Building self-confidence, academic achievement, and personal responsibility in all of our students.

About HMS

Heritage Middle School is part of the Williamson County School District in Middle Tennessee and is located 30 minutes south of Nashville in Thompson’s Station. Our district is a large area consisting of 562 square miles and Heritage Middle occupies approximately 41 acres. Our middle school houses grades 6 through 8 and provides safe facilities along with an excellent learning environment.

The Heritage Hornets are faculty, staff, and community members who proudly wear the colors of blue and orange. We are passionate about providing an environment that is encouraging, supportive, and devoted to helping everyone be the best Hornet they can be.

The cornerstone value of HMS is that the needs of every student comes first. We value excellence by providing the highest level of student learning through exemplary instruction and service. We value attitude and are committed to being solutions-oriented every day. We value perseverance and resolve to overcome any obstacle through dedication and hard work. We value teamwork and work interdependently with all team members to achieve our common goals.

Bell Schedules

The various bell schedules utilized by Heritage Middle during the school year are available below for parent convenience.  

School Year Office Hours:  7:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Summer Office Hours: 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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A group of young cheerleaders in orange shirts and blue skirts hold pom-poms and %22HMS%22 signs on a wooden floor in front of a dark curtain.
A smiling young girl with blonde wavy hair and glasses is in the foreground, while a school hallway with blue and white walls is in the background.
Three smiling people sit at a table in the foreground, with a hallway and other students visible in the background.
A woman with short gray hair and a young boy with curly brown hair stand in a school hallway, with the woman reaching into a yellow locker.
A large, fuzzy yellow bee mascot with black antennae stands in the foreground of a gymnasium, with a crowd of spectators visible in the background.
Two smiling people high-five on a sidewalk in front of a school building, with cars lined up in the background.
Three smiling boys in athletic wear stand on a basketball court in the foreground, while a crowd of spectators fills the bleachers in the background.

Heritage Middle School opened in January 2001 at 118,000 square feet.  The school is built on 41 acres.  In 2005, it had an additional 12,000 square feet added.  The new auditorium was completed in the Fall of 2018, and the total square footage of the school is now 157,843 square feet!

HMS strives to utilize the given space of our campus to best serve our students in academic, athletic, and artistic needs.

The campus includes –

  • Media Center
    • Containing an extensive library with over 7,000 books
    • Technology Resources to be utilized by teachers and students
  • A digital music lab
  • 62 classrooms
  • A stadium with bleacher seating
  • An auditorium that seats 300