Summary:
The elementary-school list for LaGrange Highlands School District 106 contains one school, Highlands Elementary School, serving PK–4 and enrolling 565 students; its 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio is 12.6:1. Because it is the only school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison. The most important finding is that Highlands’ 2025–2026 proficiency results were substantially above state results in both subjects, especially mathematics: 86% in ELA versus 56% statewide, and 82% in mathematics versus 40% statewide—advantages of 30 and 42 percentage points.
Highlands Elementary School is both the area’s only school and its only data point, so the figures cannot identify a local top or bottom performer. Its grade-level results were also well above the state: 3rd grade scored 87% in ELA and 89% in mathematics, while 4th grade scored 85% in ELA and 76% in mathematics. The clearest within-school difference is in math, where 3rd-grade proficiency was 13 percentage points higher than 4th-grade proficiency; even so, 4th-grade math was 34 points above the state result for that grade. SchoolDigger ranked the school 57th of 1,737 schools, at the 97th percentile, in 2025–2026.
Results remained strong, though the school’s advantage over the state narrowed as state scores rose. Highlands’ ELA result was essentially unchanged from 2024–2025 (86.4% to 86.0%), while its math result fell from 84% to 82%; over the same period, state results rose from 53% to 56% in ELA and from 39% to 40% in math. The ELA gap narrowed by 4 points and the math gap by 3 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from 28th of 2,067 schools (99th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 40th of 2,056 (98th percentile) in 2024–2025 and 57th of 1,737 (97th percentile) in 2025–2026. As context, the school reported 5% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, below the state’s 24%, and 4% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–2022; the latter is from an earlier year and should be read as context, not as an explanation of results.
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