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Alumni: what's one memory from HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
564
Elementary
DISTRICT 567 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 271125002269
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY
5505 DONCASTER WAY, EDINA, MN 55436 · (952) 848-4500 · Hennepin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL564 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
84 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 48%
Community
5
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 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 60% · 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
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
70.2%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
75.9%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. 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
67.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.1%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Minnesota 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 Minnesota'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 HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY's state test result (67.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY this school | 564 | 14.9% | 67.9% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY LAKEVILLE | 588 | 17.5% | 66.1% |
| COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY EDINA | 665 | 15.2% | 67.3% |
| CREEK VALLEY ELEMENTARY EDINA | 586 | 16.2% | 65.9% |
| ROGERS ELEMENTARY ROGERS | 693 | 14.7% | 69.7% |
| Hamilton Ridge Elementary School SAVAGE | 586 | 19.5% | 47.9% |
Matched among Minnesota 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 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.9% | #44 of 844 | #26 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.9% | #59 of 844 | #25 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #48 of 844 | #28 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 564 | #208 of 1,130 | #53 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #551 of 769 | #107 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.9% | #449 of 796 | #130 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.9% | #892 of 942 | #161 of 183 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #449 of 499 | #83 of 99 |
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
564
+34 (+6%) vs 2020
+2464% since 1990-91, when it was 22
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 564 | 37.4 | 15.1:1 | 15% (84) |
| 2023-24 | 554 | 37.5 | 14.8:1 | 14% (80) |
| 2022-23 | 564 | 39.9 | 14.1:1 | 15% (82) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 29 | 18.3:1 | 7% (35) |
| 2017-18 | 580 | 34.8 | 16.7:1 | 5% (29) |
| 2015-16 | 567 | 35 | 16.2:1 | 6% (36) |
| 2010-11 | 552 | 29 | 19.0:1 | 3% (14) |
| 2000-01 | 499 | 29 | 17.2:1 | 1% (6) |
| 1990-91 | 22 | 28 | 0.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (580 to 564); teachers up 7% (34.8 to 37.4).
About HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in EDINA, Minnesota. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 564 students. Elementary schools in Minnesota average about 344 students, which makes this school 64% above average.
EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY and 13 other schools, with 8,794 students in total.
About 74% of the student body at HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY is White. Enrollment also includes 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 6% Black. Among people living in Hennepin County, the White share is about 66%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 37.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY has a ratio of 15.1:1. The gap from the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota is 1.4 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 15%. The 43% average for public schools in Hennepin County is 28 points higher.
A school with HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY's lunch-eligibility share in Minnesota is predicted to score 57.1%. HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY scores 67.9%, 10.8 points above that line.
In Hennepin County, home to about 1,269,496 people, median household income comes to about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 496 public schools in the county, enrolling about 177,509, HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY among them.
COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY is about 0.7 miles from HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY is 3rd among 6 schools close by.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
A 6% rise took enrollment from 530 in 2020-21 to 564 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 18.3:1 in 2020-21 to 15.1:1 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EDINA SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,641 students
- SOUTH VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 1,021 students
- VALLEY VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 1,003 students
- CONCORD ELEMENTARYElementary · 741 students
- COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 665 students
- NORMANDALE ELEMENTARYElementary · 652 students
Other schools in EDINA
- EDINA SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,641 students
- SOUTH VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 1,021 students
- VALLEY VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 1,003 students
- CONCORD ELEMENTARYElementary · 741 students
- COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 665 students
- NORMANDALE ELEMENTARYElementary · 652 students
Other Highlands Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Highlands Elementary. HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY is the 5th largest of the 25.
- Highlands Elementary SchoolHIGHLANDS, TX · 868 students
- Highlands ElementarySaugus, CA · 666 students
- HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLIMMOKALEE, FL · 599 students
- Highlands Elementary SchoolLa Grange Highlands, IL · 565 students
- HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLKISSIMMEE, FL · 564 students
Nearby schools
- COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 665
- Edina Virtual Pathway0.9 mi · 75
- SPECIAL ED-NON PUBLIC0.9 mi · 7
- EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL ED0.9 mi · 146
- NORMANDALE ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 652
- SOUTH VIEW MIDDLE1.0 mi · 1,021
Frequently asked questions
About HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARYHow large is HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY?
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 564 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY serve?
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY?
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 74% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY?
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY is overseen by EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in Hennepin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.