Hillcrest Elementary

As an intimate elementary campus in San Francisco, California, Hillcrest Elementary caters to 317 students from grades K through 5, overseen by San Francisco Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hillcrest Elementary sits 32% smaller than that benchmark.

San Francisco Unified runs 106 schools in total, collectively educating 48,706 students. Hillcrest Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hillcrest Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%; the rest reads as 14% Asian, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Hillcrest Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Francisco County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hillcrest Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 31.2%; actual is 10.8%, a gap of -20.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Francisco County indicate median household income runs about $140,970, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Hillcrest Elementary is one of 132 public schools in San Francisco County (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students).

Serra (Junipero) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hillcrest Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.5%.

Hillcrest Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillcrest Elementary has decreased 27%, going from 435 students in 2018 to 317 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 in 2025.

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