Highlands Community Charter

Sacramento · CA · Highlands Community Charter District · Public charter · K-12 combined


📋 At a glance

Academic signals
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 7% (Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Highlands Community Charter compares for families

What families should know about Highlands Community Charter.

  • LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Higher Learning Academy, Community Outreach Academy, Sacramento County ROP and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
7%
Range: 6–9%
4-year cohort size
176
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

97.4%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 605 in 2021 to 409 in 2024 — over 3 years.
-32.4%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +44.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 11,713 students:

2025
16,977
2027
35,664
2029
74,922

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue upside

At $12,902 per student in district revenue, the 63,209 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $815,522,518/year in additional funding.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Higher Learning Academy
Sacramento
Public · charter 1.1
Community Outreach Academy
McClellan
Public · charter 3.5
Sacramento County ROP
Sacramento
Public 8.9
New Pacific Charter - Rancho Cordova
Rancho Cordova
Public · charter 9.2
Grant Union High
Sacramento
Public 0.1 1,987 -4.8%
Inderkum High
Sacramento
Public 4.7 2,194 -6.5%
California Innovative Career Academy
Sacramento
Public · charter 0.0 1,729 +121.7%
Rio Americano High
Sacramento
Public 5.9 1,891 -1.7%

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