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THE ACADEMY AT YOUTH CARE LANE → VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY → ROOSEVELT ACADEMY → RIDGE TECHNICAL ACADEMY → HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND → KAREN M. SIEGEL ACADEMY → FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL → OKEECHOBEE ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY →At a glance
- 11 AP courses offered — Elite
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- Gifted & talented program
- 2 calculus classes · 2 physics · 4 chemistry
- AP rigor: 86th percentile nationally
- SAT/ACT participation: 64th percentile by test-taker volume
- 4-yr grad rate: 49% (2023-24, Florida DOE School Grades)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Highlands Virtual School compares for families
Standout academic depth by national standards.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 14% nationally with 11 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyFL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: THE ACADEMY AT YOUTH CARE LANE, VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY, ROOSEVELT ACADEMY and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
86th percentile nationally
Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2164th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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.
Your state's public flagship
University of Florida
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $6,541/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
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Florida's public scholarships
Florida's Bright Futures pays 75–100% of in-state tuition by tier, based on GPA, test scores, and community-service hours. We built a calculator that checks the exact thresholds for you.
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Florida School Grade
Florida's official A–F school grade.
Every Florida public school earns an annual A–F grade from the state — the single signal Florida families (and the housing market) watch most. It rolls achievement, learning gains, graduation, and college/career readiness into one letter.
How does Florida grade a high school? →
A high school's grade is the percent of possible points across up to 11 components — English/math achievement and learning gains, science & social-studies achievement, the 4-year graduation rate, and College & Career Acceleration: the share of graduates who earned college credit (via AP, IB, AICE, or dual enrollment) or an industry certification. Letter cutoffs: A ≥ 62%, B ≥ 54%, C ≥ 41%, D ≥ 32%, F below.
Source: Florida Department of Education, School Grades, 2023-24. Graduation rate & College/Career Acceleration components reflect the prior cohort year, per FLDOE's grading model.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
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.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE ACADEMY AT YOUTH CARE LANE SEBRING |
Public | 1.6 | 32 | — |
| VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY LAKE WALES |
Public · charter | 30.2 | 90 | +11.1% |
| ROOSEVELT ACADEMY LAKE WALES |
Public | 30.3 | 135 | -14.6% |
| RIDGE TECHNICAL ACADEMY WINTER HAVEN |
Public | 42.2 | 101 | — |
| HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND BARTOW |
Public | 36.7 | 91 | +78.4% |
| KAREN M. SIEGEL ACADEMY LAKE ALFRED |
Public | 45.8 | 92 | +17.9% |
| FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL LAKELAND |
Public | 47.4 | 105 | +5.0% |
| OKEECHOBEE ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY OKEECHOBEE |
Public | 39.0 | 89 | -32.1% |