It covers a rural unincorporated area between Airway Heights and Spokane and has a single school, named Great Northern Elementary, that serves grades kindergarten to six.
[2][3] The first one-room schoolhouse in the Highland area was built in 1894 on land donated by the Great Northern Railway.
It was ordered to contribute $31,818 towards the construction of a new building at North Central High School in Spokane in 1978, requiring a special vote on lifting levy limits.
[6] The levy measure was passed by 90 percent of voters, allowing for school operations to remain funded and contributing their expected share of construction costs.
[1][2] The 2010 United States Census counted a population of 695 residents within the school district boundaries, of which 22.6 percent were under the age of 18.