Highlands Adult & Community Charter School: $137.4M Revenue, $71.4M Program Expenses

Highlands Adult & Community Charter School earns an A on the nonprofit efficiency rubric — a top-tier rating that reflects strong program-spending ratios, reasonable executive compensation, and stable financial reserves. The composite score of 82/100 places it in the upper bracket of U.S. tax-exempt organizations.

Highlands Adult & Community Charter School is a large nonprofit by U.S. standards: $137.4M in 2023 revenue against $91.5M in expenses. Organizations in this revenue bracket usually run multiple programs with permanent staff and a meaningful endowment or reserve. Highlands Adult & Community Charter School directs 80% of its expenses to programs — above the third-party-rater threshold for an efficient organization.

Revenue has grown meaningfully across the five-year filing history — a sign of expanding donor base, new grants, or scaling programs. Highlands Adult & Community Charter School reported $137.4M in 2023, up notably from the start of the window. CEO compensation is reported as zero in the filing — typical for nonprofits where the chief executive is paid through a related entity (parent system, university, or foundation) rather than the filing organization itself, or for small organizations whose chief is a volunteer or board member. In the Education category, Highlands Adult & Community Charter School sits alongside universities, K-12 systems, scholarship funds, and education-research organizations. Education-sector nonprofits often hold large endowments, which affects how the reserves-and-revenue ratios should be read.