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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How HIGHRIDGE FAMILY CENTER compares for families

What families should know about HIGHRIDGE FAMILY CENTER.

  • 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: PALM BEACH REGIONAL DETENTION CENTER, CAREER ACADEMY OF THE PALM BEACHES, The Repair Shop and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

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.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
20.0%
Typical mix. Watch the trend — high turnover can compound.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
40.0%
Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days
50.0%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
9
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.

Enrollment trend & projection

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

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -6.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 18 students:

2025
17
2027
15
2029
13

A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.

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

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
PALM BEACH REGIONAL DETENTION CENTER
WEST PALM BEACH
Public 0.1 37
CAREER ACADEMY OF THE PALM BEACHES
BOYNTON BEACH
Public · charter 0.8 77 +51.0%
The Repair Shop
North Palm Beach
Private 0.8 160
BODWELL ACADEMY
RIVIERA BEACH
Public · charter 1.6 31
BELIEVERS ACADEMY
WEST PALM BEACH
Public · charter 1.7 91 +1.1%
SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
RIVIERA BEACH
Public 2.1 1,522 -4.2%
PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL
WEST PALM BEACH
Public 2.3 2,809 +12.2%
INLET GROVE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
RIVIERA BEACH
Public · charter 2.5 714 -10.4%

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