Highland Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary campus in Vallejo, California, Highland Elementary hosts 510 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Vallejo City Unified.

Across the 20 schools in Vallejo City Unified (9,638 students total), Highland Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Highland Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 18% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at Highland Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Solano County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Highland Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.7%; actual is 8.7%, a gap of -19.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Solano County shows median household income runs about $100,401, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Solano County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), of which Highland Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Vallejo Adult Transition, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Highland Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 605 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 55% to 65% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 26.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Highland Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.