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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Hillcrest Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
753
Elementary
DISTRICT 564 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ENTERPRISE CITY·NCES 010132000478
Hillcrest Elementary School
400 East Watts Avenue, Enterprise, AL 36330 · (334) 347-6858 · Coffee County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL753 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.9:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
416 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 121 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 120 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (120).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
72.8%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
59.8%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
63.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Alabama's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hillcrest Elementary School
Hillcrest Elementary School's state test result (63.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillcrest Elementary School this school | 753 | 55.2% | 63.5% |
| Elsie Collier Elementary School Mobile | 731 | 56.0% | 55.1% |
| Oxford Elementary School Oxford | 837 | 56.3% | 59.0% |
| Athens Intermediate School Athens | 641 | 55.9% | 53.1% |
| Thompson Intermediate School Alabaster | 901 | 57.5% | 58.4% |
| Pelham Oaks Pelham | 750 | 53.6% | 56.7% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hillcrest Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Coffee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #139 of 626 | #3 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #107 of 626 | #3 of 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #187 of 626 | #4 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 753 | #73 of 709 | #1 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #562 of 655 | #4 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #86 of 658 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.2% | #405 of 696 | #5 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.0% | #194 of 364 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
753
-24 (-3%) vs 2020
+52% since 1990-91, when it was 494
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 20.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 753 | 39 | 19.3:1 | 55% (416) |
| 2023-24 | 768 | 40 | 19.2:1 | 58% (442) |
| 2022-23 | 760 | 42 | 18.1:1 | 54% (414) |
| 2020-21 | 777 | 38 | 20.4:1 | 46% (357) |
| 2017-18 | 846 | 38 | 22.3:1 | 50% (423) |
| 2015-16 | 779 | 35 | 22.3:1 | 47% (370) |
| 2010-11 | 598 | 33 | 18.1:1 | 57% (342) |
| 2000-01 | 478 | 37 | 12.9:1 | 48% (231) |
| 1990-91 | 494 | 27 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillcrest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (846 to 753); teachers up 3% (38 to 39).
About Hillcrest Elementary School
Hillcrest Elementary School is the name of a high-enrollment elementary school in Enterprise, Alabama. The school's enrollment of 753 students covers kindergarten through 6. Enrollment is 57% higher than the average for elementary schools in Alabama, which is about 480.
Hillcrest Elementary School is one of the 9 schools that make up Enterprise City (6,612 students in total).
At Hillcrest Elementary School, White students make up 51% of the student body. After that, the student body is 21% Black, 20% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Census figures show Coffee County is about 71% White. The school's diversity index is 65%, meaning two students picked at random have a 65% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at Hillcrest Elementary School is 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 19.3:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 17.0:1 average for elementary schools in Alabama. About 55% of students, or 416, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Hillcrest Elementary School would score about 43.8%. It scores 63.5%, a top-10% result among Alabama schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Coffee County this way: the median household income is $68,353, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. In all, Coffee County has 18 public schools and roughly 10,168 students.
Of nearby public schools, Dauphin Junior High School is the closest, at about 0.9 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hillcrest Elementary School. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Hillcrest Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Hillcrest Elementary School in the Town: Distant locale, which means it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Hillcrest Elementary School's enrollment dropped from 777 in 2020-21 to 753 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 19.3:1.
The Hillcrest Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Coffee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
54,920
Census ACS
Median income
$68,353
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
10,168 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Enterprise City
- Enterprise High SchoolHigh · 2,177 students
- Holly Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 666 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 657 students
- Coppinville SchoolMiddle · 571 students
- Rucker Boulevard Elementary SchoolElementary · 517 students
- Dauphin Junior High SchoolMiddle · 481 students
Other schools in Enterprise
- Enterprise High SchoolHigh · 2,177 students
- Holly Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 666 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 657 students
- Coppinville SchoolMiddle · 571 students
- Rucker Boulevard Elementary SchoolElementary · 517 students
- Dauphin Junior High SchoolMiddle · 481 students
Other Hillcrest Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 24 states are named Hillcrest Elementary. Hillcrest Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 42.
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolLake Stevens, WA · 842 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolNEDERLAND, TX · 717 students
- Hillcrest ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 678 students
- HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE WALES, FL · 667 students
- Hillcrest ElementaryMorristown, TN · 647 students
Nearby schools
- Dauphin Junior High School0.9 mi · 481
- Enterprise High School1.0 mi · 2,177
- Holly Hill Elementary School1.1 mi · 666
- Pinedale Elementary School1.6 mi · 350
- Rucker Boulevard Elementary School2.1 mi · 517
- Coppinville School2.2 mi · 571
Frequently asked questions
About Hillcrest Elementary SchoolHow large is Hillcrest Elementary School?
Hillcrest Elementary School enrolls approximately 753 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Hillcrest Elementary School serve?
Hillcrest Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Hillcrest Elementary School?
Approximately 19.3:1 students per teacher at Hillcrest Elementary School.
How diverse is Hillcrest Elementary School?
Hillcrest Elementary School reports a student body of 51% White, 20% Hispanic, 21% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Hillcrest Elementary School?
Hillcrest Elementary School is overseen by Enterprise City in Coffee County.
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