# HIGHLAND CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001761`
- **School name**: HIGHLAND CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: HIGHLAND CITY, FL 33846
- **Address**: 5355 9TH STREET SE
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.96614, -81.88380
- **Phone**: (863)648-3540

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 414
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: C

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.9% (129 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.7% (61 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.6%
- **Asian**: 13.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 49.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 62.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 7.0% — 29 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,575
- **Federal share**: $2,292
- **State + local share**: $10,283
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,489,537
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 43.8%
- **Local share**: 35.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,033,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,789
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.2%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,567
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.7 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.30 miles (FORMER OAKS SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HIGHLAND PINES MOBILE HOME PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-02-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.72%)
- **POLK STATE LAKELAND GATEWAY TO COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHO** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.72%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 3.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.72%)
- **FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.72%)
- **POLK GRAD ACADEMY** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.72%)

### ela proficiency
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 53%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 69% (this school: 53%)
- **GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH** — 2.3 mi away, 60% (this school: 53%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 53%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 3.7 mi away, 81% (this school: 53%)

### math proficiency
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 69%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 79% (this school: 69%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 72% (this school: 69%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 3.7 mi away, 84% (this school: 69%)
- **CLEVELAND COURT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 69%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/highland-city-elementary-school-highland-city/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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