# Highland Ranch Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063153001204`
- **School name**: Highland Ranch Elementary
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92128
- **Address**: 14840 Waverley Downs Way
- **District**: Poway Unified (LEAID `0631530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 32.98420, -117.07200
- **Phone**: (858)674-4707
- **Website**: https://www.powayusd.com/pusdhres

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 661
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 14.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 59.4% proficient — 310 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 10.9% (74 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (27 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 students) [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**: 18.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 91 students
- **English Learners**: 12.7% — 84 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,661
- **Federal share**: $898
- **State + local share**: $14,763
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 661
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,020,175
- **Federal share**: 6.4%
- **State share**: 39.4%
- **Local share**: 54.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,559,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $159,434
- **Poverty rate**: 1.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 77.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,070
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.2 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.18 miles (317 151 59 AND 316 120 16)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.78877 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.9%)
- **Abraxas Continuation High** — 0.9 mi away, 8.23% (this school: 10.9%)
- **Rolling Hills Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 10.8% (this school: 10.9%)
- **Oak Valley Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 5.2% (this school: 10.9%)
- **Tierra Bonita Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 10.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 0.8 mi away, 66.65% (this school: 62.7%)
- **Bernardo Heights Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 63.3% (this school: 62.7%)
- **Rolling Hills Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 68.4% (this school: 62.7%)
- **Shoal Creek Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 72.15% (this school: 62.7%)
- **Los Penasquitos Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 71.8% (this school: 62.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Shoal Creek Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Los Penasquitos Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Painted Rock Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Sunset Hills Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Dingeman Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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