# Highlands Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highlands-elementary-saugus/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/highlands-elementary-saugus

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063597006155`
- **School name**: Highlands Elementary
- **Location**: Saugus, CA 91350
- **Address**: 27332 Catala Ave.
- **District**: Saugus Union (LEAID `0635970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.44048, -118.52316
- **Phone**: (661)294-5320
- **Website**: https://www.saugususd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 666
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.1%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.8% proficient — 278 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 6.5% (39 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (77 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 30.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 63.8% — 372 students
- **English Learners**: 67.9% — 396 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,247
- **Federal share**: $633
- **State + local share**: $13,614
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 583
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,155,071
- **Federal share**: 6.2%
- **State share**: 46.9%
- **Local share**: 46.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,202,726

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $145,037
- **Poverty rate**: 2.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.7%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,314
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.9 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.33 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LILY OF THE VALLEY MOBILE VILLAGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.35987 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Saugus High** — 0.3 mi away, 0.22% (this school: 6.5%)
- **Santa Clarita Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 2.3% (this school: 6.5%)
- **James Foster Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 6.3% (this school: 6.5%)
- **Emblem Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 6.3% (this school: 6.5%)
- **North Park Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 5.4% (this school: 6.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Saugus High** — 0.3 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Santa Clarita Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 51.5% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Arroyo Seco Junior High** — 0.8 mi away, 62.25% (this school: 50.8%)
- **James Foster Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Emblem Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 71.95% (this school: 50.8%)

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