# HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120147001468`
- **School name**: HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: KISSIMMEE, FL 34741
- **Address**: 800 W DONEGAN AVE
- **District**: OSCEOLA (LEAID `1201470`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.31786, -81.41053
- **Phone**: (407)935-3620

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 564
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.1%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 38.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 45.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 55.0% proficient
- **Grade 3 ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 43.0% proficient
- **Math Achievement (FL FAST)**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 31.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 34.0% proficient
- **Percent Economically Disadvantaged (FL)**: 100.0% proficient
- **Science Achievement (FL SSA)**: 45.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 38.5% (264 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.5% (27 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.8% (35 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 40.0% (239 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 83.6%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 6.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 93 students
- **English Learners**: 56.0% — 335 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 32 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Autism**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,481
- **Federal share**: $2,729
- **State + local share**: $9,752
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,994,381
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 42.2%
- **Local share**: 43.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,851,865

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $39,390
- **Poverty rate**: 29.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,550
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.0 miles (CHEVRON CHEMICAL CO ORTHO DIVISION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.74 miles (KISSIMMEE SELF STORAGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TOHO WATER AUTHORITY EASTERN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.6814 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.52%)
- **VICTORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.52%)
- **VICTORY CHARTER SCHOOL K-5** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.52%)
- **RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TAPESTRY** — 1.1 mi away, 1.13% (this school: 4.52%)
- **MAIN STREET HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 1.69% (this school: 4.52%)

### ela proficiency
- **OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 68% (this school: 40.5%)
- **VICTORY CHARTER SCHOOL K-5** — 1.1 mi away, 46% (this school: 40.5%)
- **RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TAPESTRY** — 1.1 mi away, 48.5% (this school: 40.5%)
- **KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 42% (this school: 40.5%)
- **OSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 1.7 mi away, 88% (this school: 40.5%)

### math proficiency
- **OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 70% (this school: 38%)
- **RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TAPESTRY** — 1.1 mi away, 61% (this school: 38%)
- **KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 50% (this school: 38%)
- **OSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 1.7 mi away, 86% (this school: 38%)
- **THACKER AVENUE ELEMENTARY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES** — 1.7 mi away, 46% (this school: 38%)

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