# Highland Elem School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/highland-elem-school-elgin/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/highland-elem-school-elgin

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171371001680`
- **School name**: Highland Elem School
- **Location**: Elgin, IL 60123
- **Address**: 190 N Melrose Ave
- **District**: SD U-46 (LEAID `1713710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.03869, -88.30897
- **Phone**: (847)888-5280

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 616
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.1%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (IL IAR)**: 21.5% proficient
- **Math (IL IAR)**: 13.8% proficient
- **Science (IL IAR)**: 25.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.9% (146 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 79.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 7.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.9% — 111 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,314
- **Federal share**: $2,502
- **State + local share**: $12,812
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,820,321
- **Federal share**: 7.5%
- **State share**: 48.7%
- **Local share**: 43.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,822,496

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $70,400
- **Poverty rate**: 10.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,167
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.3 miles (TRI COUNTY LANDFILL CO WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.50 miles (CAFT METAL SPINNING)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.9939 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Harriet Gifford Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 24.4% (this school: 24.87%)
- **Hillcrest Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 17.79% (this school: 24.87%)
- **McKinley Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 15.54% (this school: 24.87%)
- **Century Oaks Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 24.11% (this school: 24.87%)
- **Larsen Middle School** — 2.0 mi away, 23.83% (this school: 24.87%)

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

---
*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.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*