# Highlands Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172472002677`
- **School name**: Highlands Elem School
- **Location**: Hazel Crest, IL 60429
- **Address**: 3420 Laurel Ln
- **District**: Prairie-Hills ESD 144 (LEAID `1724720`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.58055, -87.70067
- **Phone**: (708)335-9773

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 311
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 28.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.6%

## 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 35.9% (114 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 90.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.6% — 37 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 13 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,260
- **Federal share**: $3,124
- **State + local share**: $13,136
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,470,813
- **Federal share**: 16.3%
- **State share**: 53.0%
- **Local share**: 30.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,774,895

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,245
- **Poverty rate**: 12.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.7%
- **Unemployment**: 8.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,487
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.6 miles (ESTECH GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.40 miles (MARKHAM MOTORS 159TH TURNER SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HAZEL CREST
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.88793 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Markham Park Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 35.79% (this school: 35.85%)
- **Flossmoor Hills Elem School** — 2.3 mi away, 14.44% (this school: 35.85%)
- **Homewood-Flossmoor High School** — 2.5 mi away, 20.77% (this school: 35.85%)
- **Bremen High School** — 2.5 mi away, 26.88% (this school: 35.85%)
- **Parker Junior High School** — 2.6 mi away, 30.44% (this school: 35.85%)

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