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Enrollment
438
Elementary
DISTRICT 551 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VISALIA UNIFIED·NCES 064116006795
Highland Elementary
701 North Stevenson St., Visalia, CA 93291 · (559) 730-7769 · Tulare County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL438 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
382 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 94 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 84% larger than its 6th grade class (51).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
26.7%
CA avg 49.1% . -0.3pp since 2014
Math
20.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -4.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 10.7% | 16.0% | 23.8% | 49.5% |
| Math | 6.1% | 14.5% | 21.5% | 57.9% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.7% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.1% | 18.1% |
| 2022-23 | 20.5% | 17.3% |
| 2021-22 | 16.6% | 11.9% |
| 2020-21 | 6.7% | 3.7% |
| 2018-19 | 16.2% | 8.4% |
| 2017-18 | 27.9% | 16.7% |
| 2016-17 | 28.5% | 18.4% |
| 2015-16 | 34.0% | 31.0% |
| 2014-15 | 27.0% | 25.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Highland Elementary
Highland Elementary's state test result (24.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Elementary this school | 438 | 87.2% | 24.0% |
| Sierra Linda Elementary Oxnard | 455 | 87.9% | 30.1% |
| Howard J. McKibben Elementary Whittier | 430 | 86.3% | 35.9% |
| Mountain Vista Fillmore | 430 | 87.0% | 29.5% |
| Fairhaven Elementary Santa Ana | 421 | 88.4% | 26.4% |
| Ivanhoe Elementary Ivanhoe | 473 | 87.7% | 31.2% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Highland Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Tulare County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #4,191 of 5,151 | #82 of 102 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #4,248 of 5,172 ▲ 129 | #81 of 102 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #4,310 of 5,172 ▼ 314 | #87 of 102 ▼ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.4pp | #694 of 5,116 | #29 of 102 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 438 | #3,184 of 5,915 | #67 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #317 of 5,352 | #8 of 100 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.1% | #4,476 of 5,354 | #59 of 100 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.2% | #1,443 of 5,625 | #49 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.9% | #1,327 of 3,837 | #15 of 77 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
438
-41 (-9%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 606
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 22.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 438 | 24 | 18.2:1 | 87% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 438 | 23.2 | 18.9:1 | 88% (386) |
| 2022-23 | 459 | 23.4 | 19.6:1 | 93% (426) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 21 | 22.8:1 | 92% (442) |
| 2017-18 | 554 | 20 | 27.7:1 | 96% (530) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 20 | 28.1:1 | 85% (480) |
| 2010-11 | 509 | N/A | N/A | 94% (479) |
| 2000-01 | 469 | 29 | 16.2:1 | 97% (454) |
| 1990-91 | 606 | 26 | 23.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Highland Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (554 to 438); teachers up 20% (20 to 24).
About Highland Elementary
Highland Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school for students in Visalia, California. The school offers kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 438 students.
Visalia Unified has 28,725 students spread across 41 schools.
A large majority of enrollment at Highland Elementary is Hispanic, at 90%. The school is also 6% multiracial and 3% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 67%. The diversity index for Highland Elementary is 19%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Highland Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.2:1. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 4.1 students per teacher. At Highland Elementary, 87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The 77% average for public schools in Tulare County is 10 points lower.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 28.4% at Highland Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 24.0%.
For the population of Tulare County, median household income comes to about $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Tulare County counts 196 public schools with about 101,494 students.
Redwood High is the nearest public school to Highland Elementary, about 0.4 miles away. Highland Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Highland Elementary ranks 5th on proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Highland Elementary is City: Mid-size.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 438, from 479 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 22.8:1 in 2020-21, and 18.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Tulare County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
478,693
Census ACS
Median income
$71,300
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
196
101,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Visalia Unified
- Redwood HighHigh · 2,490 students
- Golden West HighHigh · 2,059 students
- El Diamante HighHigh · 1,890 students
- Mt. Whitney HighHigh · 1,637 students
- Ridgeview MiddleMiddle · 975 students
- Valley Oak MiddleMiddle · 952 students
Other schools in Visalia
- Redwood HighHigh · 2,490 students
- Golden West HighHigh · 2,059 students
- El Diamante HighHigh · 1,890 students
- Mt. Whitney HighHigh · 1,637 students
- Special EducationCombined · 1,141 students
- Ridgeview MiddleMiddle · 975 students
Other Highland Elementary schools
55 other US public schools in 26 states are named Highland Elementary. Highland Elementary is the 28th largest of the 56.
- Highland ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 778 students
- Highland ElementaryNorco, CA · 573 students
- Highland ElementaryVallejo, CA · 510 students
- Highland ElementaryRichmond, CA · 377 students
- Highland ElementaryInglewood, CA · 323 students
Nearby schools
- Redwood High0.4 mi · 2,490
- Houston Elementary0.5 mi · 523
- Crescent Valley Public Charter II0.6 mi · 852
- Creekside Community Day0.8 mi · 34
- Conyer Elementary0.9 mi · 377
- Green Acres Middle0.9 mi · 761
Frequently asked questions
About Highland ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Highland Elementary?
Highland Elementary enrolls approximately 438 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Highland Elementary serve?
Highland Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Highland Elementary have?
Highland Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.2:1.
How diverse is Highland Elementary?
Highland Elementary reports a student body of 3% White, 90% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Highland Elementary?
Highland Elementary is overseen by Visalia Unified in Tulare County.
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