Highland Elementary

Highland Elementary operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Visalia, California, part of Visalia Unified. Current enrollment sits at 438 students spanning grades K through 6.

Visalia Unified runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 28,725 students. Highland Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Highland Elementary reports that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 6% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Highland Elementary logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tulare County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Highland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.5%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Tulare County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Highland Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Nearest neighbor: Redwood High, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Highland Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highland Elementary has contracted 21%, going from 554 students in 2018 to 438 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.7:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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