# HIGHLAND LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156002884`
- **School name**: HIGHLAND LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALM HARBOR, FL 34684
- **Address**: 1230 HIGHLANDS BLVD
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.07748, -82.71778
- **Phone**: (727)724-1429

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 449
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.4% (46 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.2% (57 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.8%
- **Black/African American**: 4.3%
- **Asian**: 3.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 68.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 6.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.3% — 81 students
- **English Learners**: 3.9% — 18 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 29 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,102
- **Federal share**: $995
- **State + local share**: $12,108
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,667,582
- **Federal share**: 18.3%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,792,259

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,344
- **Poverty rate**: 17.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.8%
- **Unemployment**: 9.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,284
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.1 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.58 miles (533 15TH STREET)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 73% (this school: 67%)
- **LAKE ST. GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 75% (this school: 67%)
- **CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 68% (this school: 67%)
- **SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 74% (this school: 67%)
- **ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY** — 2.6 mi away, 89.5% (this school: 67%)

### math proficiency
- **JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 76% (this school: 69%)
- **LAKE ST. GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 69%)
- **CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 75% (this school: 69%)
- **SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 82% (this school: 69%)
- **PALM HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 71% (this school: 69%)

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