# HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120171003125`
- **School name**: HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: WINTER SPRINGS, FL 32708
- **Address**: 1600 SHEPARD RD
- **District**: SEMINOLE (LEAID `1201710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.71654, -81.31769
- **Phone**: (407)746-6650

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 503
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.2%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 69.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 63.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 40.0% proficient
- **Grade 3 ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 74.0% proficient
- **Math Achievement (FL FAST)**: 71.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 21.0% proficient
- **Percent Economically Disadvantaged (FL)**: 65.0% proficient
- **Science Achievement (FL SSA)**: 73.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.4% (63 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.6% (64 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 35.9%
- **Black/African American**: 4.3%
- **Asian**: 8.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 45.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 6.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.9% — 91 students
- **English Learners**: 6.5% — 33 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 36 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,822
- **Federal share**: $1,308
- **State + local share**: $10,515
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $11,133,061
- **Federal share**: 14.8%
- **State share**: 41.8%
- **Local share**: 43.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,573,918

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $61,870
- **Poverty rate**: 11.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.9%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,614
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.2 miles (GENERAL DYNAMICS LONGWOOD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.35 miles (GRACIA COMMUNITY CHURCH)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WINTER SPRINGS, CITY OF (3 WPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 27
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-08-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.75294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0.82% (this school: 0.98%)
- **SEMINOLE SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.98%)
- **LAYER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 0.98%)
- **LAKE MARY HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0.93% (this school: 0.98%)
- **SEMINOLE COUNTY DETENTION CENTER** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.98%)

### ela proficiency
- **SEMINOLE SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 71.5%)
- **LAYER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 74.5% (this school: 71.5%)
- **CHOICES IN LEARNING CHARTER** — 2.9 mi away, 91.5% (this school: 71.5%)
- **WOODLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 71.5%)
- **KEETH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 71.5%)

### math proficiency
- **SEMINOLE SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 71%)
- **CHOICES IN LEARNING CHARTER** — 2.9 mi away, 91% (this school: 71%)
- **WOODLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 82% (this school: 71%)
- **ROCK LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 82% (this school: 71%)
- **CASSELBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 77% (this school: 71%)

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