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Enrollment
503
Elementary
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEMINOLE·NCES 120171003125
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1600 SHEPARD RD, WINTER SPRINGS, FL 32708 · (407) 746-6650 · Seminole County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL503 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
313 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · 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
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
66.9%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
68.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.9% | 68.1% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 67.4% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
67.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (67.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 503 | 62.2% | 67.7% |
| LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LONGWOOD | 573 | 64.7% | 62.2% |
| FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 542 | 61.1% | 62.1% |
| ENTERPRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENTERPRISE | 544 | 59.0% | 55.9% |
| SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELTONA | 428 | 62.4% | 36.8% |
| SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 493 | 58.4% | 42.2% |
Matched among Florida 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 HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Seminole County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.7% | #541 of 2,136 | #20 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #731 of 2,149 ▼ 93 | #21 of 41 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #552 of 2,149 ▼ 123 | #22 of 41 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 503 | #1,407 of 2,267 | #39 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #238 of 2,077 | #7 of 41 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #518 of 2,108 | #26 of 41 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.2% | #820 of 2,188 | #15 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.3% | #655 of 1,374 | #14 of 30 |
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
503
-51 (-9%) vs 2020
-41% since 2000-01, when it was 851
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 503 | 37 | 13.6:1 | 62% (313) |
| 2023-24 | 509 | 35.3 | 14.4:1 | 64% (328) |
| 2022-23 | 528 | 33.3 | 15.8:1 | 59% (314) |
| 2020-21 | 554 | 38 | 14.6:1 | 62% (341) |
| 2017-18 | 601 | 43 | 14.0:1 | 57% (345) |
| 2015-16 | 656 | 50 | 13.1:1 | 64% (423) |
| 2010-11 | 470 | 40 | 11.8:1 | 59% (275) |
| 2000-01 | 851 | 51 | 16.7:1 | 34% (286) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school for students in WINTER SPRINGS, Florida. The school enrolls 503 students, from pre-K through 5.
Within SEMINOLE, HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 74 schools. The district enrolls 63,934 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic (41%). Other groups make up 40% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Black, and 3% Asian. Seminole County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 66%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school has about 13.6 students per teacher and 37 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 62%. Public schools in Seminole County average 47%.
In Florida, HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 67.7% compared with a predicted 50.0%.
Seminole County has about 481,470 residents, and median household income is about $85,761, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Seminole County number 77 and enroll about 63,934.
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 67.7% is above the 63.0% average for nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 503, 9% below the 554 of 2020-21.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Seminole County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
481,470
Census ACS
Median income
$85,761
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
63,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SEMINOLE
- SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,807 students
- LAKE BRANTLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,813 students
- LAKE MARY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,714 students
- HAGERTY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,449 students
- OVIEDO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,312 students
- LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,241 students
Other schools in WINTER SPRINGS
- WINTER SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,940 students
- INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,116 students
- RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 729 students
- CHOICES IN LEARNING CHARTERElementary · 685 students
- LAYER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 543 students
- KEETH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 535 students
Other Highlands Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Highlands Elementary. HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 12th largest of the 25.
- HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLIMMOKALEE, FL · 599 students
- HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLKISSIMMEE, FL · 564 students
- Highlands Elementary SchoolHIGHLANDS, TX · 868 students
- Highlands ElementarySaugus, CA · 666 students
- Highlands Elementary SchoolLa Grange Highlands, IL · 565 students
Nearby schools
- LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 573
- WINTER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 501
- SEMINOLE SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL1.4 mi · 547
- LAYER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 543
- LAKE MARY HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 2,714
- GREENWOOD LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 858
Frequently asked questions
About HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 503 students in grades PK-05.
Is HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
What is the student diversity at HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 40% White, 41% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SEMINOLE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.