# Highland High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-palmdale/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-palmdale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060282009515`
- **School name**: Highland High
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93551
- **Address**: 39055 25th St. West
- **District**: Antelope Valley Union High (LEAID `0602820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.59210, -118.17590
- **Phone**: (661)538-0304
- **Website**: https://www.highlandhs.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5758813 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_High_School_(Palmdale,_California)
- **Founded**: 1989

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,706
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 107
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.9%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.7% proficient — 535 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.3% (cohort of 748)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 615)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 526

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.0% (505 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (14 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 67.2%
- **Black/African American**: 4.7%
- **Asian**: 15.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 62.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.4% — 539 students
- **English Learners**: 9.8% — 271 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 211 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 82 students
- **Autism**: 58 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 38 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 33 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 20 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 11 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,120
- **Federal share**: $2,601
- **State + local share**: $14,519
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,778
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,549,944
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 64.5%
- **Local share**: 20.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,729,572

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $115,308
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,635
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.0 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 25.54 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Quartz Hill High** — 5.8 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 0.25%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 6.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)
- **Desert Willow Fine Arts Sci and Tech Magnet Acad** — 6.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)
- **Empower Generations** — 6.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)
- **Vasquez High** — 7.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)

### ela proficiency
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 55.4% (this school: 41.7%)
- **Anaverde Hills** — 1.9 mi away, 48.3% (this school: 41.7%)
- **Esperanza Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 43.8% (this school: 41.7%)
- **Hillview Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 48.8% (this school: 41.7%)
- **Rancho Vista Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 48.7% (this school: 41.7%)

### graduation rate
- **Academies of the Antelope Valley** — 6.0 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 91.3%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 6.0 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 91.3%)
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 6.2 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 91.3%)
- **Vasquez High** — 7.3 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 91.3%)
- **William J. (Pete) Knight High** — 9.7 mi away, 92% (this school: 91.3%)

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