# Highland Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171899002180`
- **School name**: Highland Middle School
- **Location**: Highland, IL 62249
- **Address**: 400 Broadway
- **District**: Highland CUSD 5 (LEAID `1718990`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 38.75942, -89.67362
- **Phone**: (618)651-8800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 616
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 30.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Commendable
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Commendable

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 68.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.2% (57 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 33
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 1.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 95.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 31.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.6% — 122 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 56 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 33 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,708
- **Federal share**: $936
- **State + local share**: $10,772
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,171,539
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 38.7%
- **Local share**: 50.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,528,707

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $93,319
- **Poverty rate**: 3.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,079
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.2 miles (CIRCLE SMELTING CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.40 miles (1101 BROADWAY FORMER GAS STATION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HIGHLAND
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Highland Elementary  School** — 1.9 mi away, 5.46% (this school: 9.18%)
- **Highland Primary School** — 1.9 mi away, 6.17% (this school: 9.18%)
- **Grantfork Upper Elementary Sch** — 5.0 mi away, 1.16% (this school: 9.18%)
- **St Rose Elem School** — 8.3 mi away, 3.72% (this school: 9.18%)
- **Alhambra Primary School** — 9.5 mi away, 4.49% (this school: 9.18%)

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