# Highlands Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171911002197`
- **School name**: Highlands Middle School
- **Location**: La Grange Highlands, IL 60525
- **Address**: 1850 W Plainfield Rd
- **District**: LaGrange Highlands SD 106 (LEAID `1719110`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.78189, -87.89273
- **Phone**: (708)579-6890

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 429
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.9:1

## 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 2.0% (8 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**: 13.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.8%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 78.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.8% — 42 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,115
- **Federal share**: $822
- **State + local share**: $16,293
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,764,113
- **Federal share**: 2.9%
- **State share**: 24.3%
- **Local share**: 72.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,613,911

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $139,018
- **Poverty rate**: 3.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 60.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,734
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.8 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 67
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.66 miles (TRIANGLE PROJECT 7 LAGRANGE MULTI TENANTS)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.50493 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Forest Hills Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 1% (this school: 2.05%)
- **Spring Ave Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 2.05%)
- **Field Park Elem School** — 2.0 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 2.05%)
- **Cossitt Ave Elem School** — 2.4 mi away, 2.02% (this school: 2.05%)
- **John Laidlaw Elem School** — 2.4 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 2.05%)

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