# Highland High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954002345`
- **School name**: Highland High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93306
- **Address**: 2900 Royal Scots Way
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.40045, -118.93353
- **Phone**: (661)872-2777
- **Website**: http://highland.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5758804 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_High_School_(Bakersfield,_California)
- **Founded**: 1972

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,530
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 105
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Yellow
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Yellow
  - math: Orange
  - college_career: Yellow
  - ela: Yellow
  - graduation: Green

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.2% proficient — 569 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 88.9% (cohort of 678)
- **2021**: 88.0% (cohort of 563)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 7

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.6% (427 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (10 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 73.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.7%
- **Asian**: 6.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 16.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.5% — 344 students
- **English Learners**: 5.2% — 133 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 134 students
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,339
- **Federal share**: $1,986
- **State + local share**: $15,353
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,543
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,038,145
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,976,157

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,363
- **Poverty rate**: 17.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.6%
- **Unemployment**: 5.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,571
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.0 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.44 miles (2421 HALEY STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAKERSFIELD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.0743 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Centennial High** — 9.2 mi away, 0.09% (this school: 0.2%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 9.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.2%)
- **Ridgeview High** — 11.0 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.2%)
- **Liberty High** — 11.3 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.2%)
- **Stockdale High** — 12.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 57.95% (this school: 51.1%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 2.3 mi away, 58% (this school: 51.1%)
- **Foothill High** — 2.6 mi away, 53.2% (this school: 51.1%)
- **Washington Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 52.6% (this school: 51.1%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 53.9% (this school: 51.1%)

### graduation rate
- **Valley Oaks Charter** — 4.9 mi away, 89.7% (this school: 88.9%)
- **South High** — 7.0 mi away, 90.3% (this school: 88.9%)
- **Centennial High** — 9.2 mi away, 91.1% (this school: 88.9%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 9.4 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 88.9%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 9.9 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 88.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 2.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Paul L. Cato Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Foothill High** — 2.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Washington Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highland-high-bakersfield/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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