# HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361440001193`
- **School name**: HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: HIGHLAND, NY 12528
- **Address**: 71 MAIN ST
- **District**: HIGHLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3614400`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.72284, -73.96442
- **Phone**: (845)691-1080

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 348
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.2% (54 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.5% (81 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 7
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.9%
- **Asian**: 6.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 69.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 38.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.4% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 0.3% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,072
- **Federal share**: $2,018
- **State + local share**: $31,054
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 360
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,279,330
- **Federal share**: 5.6%
- **State share**: 34.5%
- **Local share**: 59.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $17,206,083

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $88,904
- **Poverty rate**: 8.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,569
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.5 miles (HERTEL LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.29 miles (BARNES LANDFILL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HIGHLAND WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.78491 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **VIOLET AVENUE SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)
- **HIGHLAND RESIDENTIAL CENTER** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)
- **ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 1.01% (this school: 1.11%)
- **ORVILLE A TODD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)
- **SPACKENKILL HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)

### ela proficiency
- **ORVILLE A TODD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 65% (this school: 42%)
- **HAGAN SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 50% (this school: 42%)
- **NEW PALTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 49% (this school: 42%)
- **LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 51% (this school: 42%)
- **OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 50% (this school: 42%)

### math proficiency
- **ORVILLE A TODD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 73.6% (this school: 54%)
- **HAGAN SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 67% (this school: 54%)
- **NEW PALTZ MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 67.2% (this school: 54%)
- **LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 62% (this school: 54%)
- **OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 54%)

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