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What's the best and worst thing about the food at Highlands High School?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Reading
73.0%
State avg 47.9%
District avg 73.9%
County avg 56.1%
District avg 73.9%
County avg 56.1%
Test scores
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KSA (K-PREP), SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient/Distinguished.Mathematics
71.0%
State avg 42.8%
District avg 68.3%
County avg 51.7%
District avg 68.3%
County avg 51.7%
Science
42.0%
State avg 33.1%
District avg 58.0%
County avg 39.1%
District avg 58.0%
County avg 39.1%
Social Studies
61.0%
State avg 38.6%
District avg 62.8%
County avg 44.6%
District avg 62.8%
County avg 44.6%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 71 of 100 do math at grade level, about 42 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 61 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48, 43, 33, and 39.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.1%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Kentucky 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 Kentucky'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 →
1-year history
All grades, all students. Highlands Kentucky avgReading
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 73.0% | 73.9% | 56.1% | 47.9% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 71.0% | 68.3% | 51.7% | 42.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 42.0% | 58.0% | 39.1% | 33.1% |
Social Studies
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 61.0% | 62.8% | 44.6% | 38.6% |
Recent discussions
From the Highlands High School community.How to read these scores
What is KSA (K-PREP)?
KSA (K-PREP) is the statewide standardized test administered by Kentucky public schools.
What does "% Proficient/Distinguished" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 73.0% mean for Reading at Highlands High School?
It means about 73.0 percent of students tested at Highlands High School performed at grade level or above on the KSA (K-PREP) Reading test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Kentucky that year was 47.9%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Kentucky, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Kentucky Department of Education, Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA / K-PREP). School-level All Students subgroup from the KDE Open House supplemental datasets. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Distinguished" rate (top 2 of 4 KSA levels: Novice / Apprentice / Proficient / Distinguished).
How often is it updated?
KSA (K-PREP) is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.