Highlands Community Charter

Set in Sacramento, California, Highlands Community Charter is an expansive combined-grade school, part of Highlands Community Charter District. It hosts 11,713 students across grades 1 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Highlands Community Charter sits 1846% above that benchmark.

Highlands Community Charter District is the operating authority for Highlands Community Charter, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Highlands Community Charter shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 25% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Highlands Community Charter has 127 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 92.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.6:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Highlands Community Charter is one.

The closest other public school is California Innovative Career Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Highlands Community Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.