# HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120150001514`
- **School name**: HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKE WORTH, FL 33460
- **Address**: 500 HIGHLAND AVE
- **District**: PALM BEACH (LEAID `1201500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.62182, -80.06591
- **Phone**: (561)202-0500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 976
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 68
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.2%

## 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 29.6% (292 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.7% (69 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.3% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 26.9% (242 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 5.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 71.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 17.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 116 students
- **English Learners**: 28.7% — 258 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 57 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 55 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,633
- **Federal share**: $3,552
- **State + local share**: $14,081
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,532,108
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 21.7%
- **Local share**: 63.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,014,132

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,169
- **Poverty rate**: 30.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,422
- **Foreign-born residents**: 46.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 57.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.0 miles (TRANS CIRCUITS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.60 miles (812 NORTH DIXIE HIGHWAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE WORTH BEACH UTILITIES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.39436 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LAKE WORTH HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 7.68%)
- **NORTH GRADE K-8** — 0.8 mi away, 0.76% (this school: 7.68%)
- **LAKE WORTH COMMUNITY MIDDLE** — 0.8 mi away, 2.84% (this school: 7.68%)
- **SOUTH GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 7% (this school: 7.68%)
- **PALM BEACH PREPARATORY CHARTER ACADEMY** — 1.5 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 7.68%)

### ela proficiency
- **LAKE WORTH HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 39% (this school: 30%)
- **NORTH GRADE K-8** — 0.8 mi away, 51.5% (this school: 30%)
- **LAKE WORTH COMMUNITY MIDDLE** — 0.8 mi away, 34% (this school: 30%)
- **SOUTH GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 33.5% (this school: 30%)
- **G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 2.0 mi away, 57% (this school: 30%)

### math proficiency
- **SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 71% (this school: 58%)
- **PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 62% (this school: 58%)
- **MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 70% (this school: 58%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY LAKES** — 3.4 mi away, 59% (this school: 58%)
- **GREENACRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 72% (this school: 58%)

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