# HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120033000346`
- **School name**: HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: IMMOKALEE, FL 34142
- **Address**: 1101 LAKE TRAFFORD RD
- **District**: COLLIER (LEAID `1200330`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.43220, -81.42890
- **Phone**: (239)377-7100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 599
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.1%

## 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 17.3% (94 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.8% (51 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 6
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 92.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 4.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.7% — 79 students
- **English Learners**: 33.0% — 191 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 36 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,381
- **Federal share**: $2,903
- **State + local share**: $14,478
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,547,536
- **Federal share**: 13.6%
- **State share**: 11.3%
- **Local share**: 75.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,565,806

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,649
- **Poverty rate**: 28.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.3%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,369
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 70.8 miles (FLORIDA STEEL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.48 miles (PASTURE EAST OF WATER PLANT SITE)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **IMMOKALEE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 1.07% (this school: 1.56%)
- **IMMOKALEE TEEN PARENTING PROG** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.56%)
- **RCMA IMMOKALEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.56%)
- **THE PACE PROGRAM** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.56%)
- **PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 1.56%)

### ela proficiency
- **PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 57.5%)
- **LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 64.5% (this school: 57.5%)
- **ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 9.8 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 57.5%)
- **CYPRESS PALM MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 12.9 mi away, 60% (this school: 57.5%)
- **SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 13.0 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 57.5%)

### math proficiency
- **IMMOKALEE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 69% (this school: 62%)
- **PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 62%)
- **LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 63% (this school: 62%)
- **EDEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 72% (this school: 62%)
- **VILLAGE OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 68% (this school: 62%)

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