Hillview Crest Elementary

Hillview Crest Elementary, a medium-sized K-5 school in Hayward, California, one of the schools within New Haven Unified, enrolls 420 students, covering grades K through 5.

New Haven Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 10,056 students. Hillview Crest Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hillview Crest Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 16% Asian, 7% multiracial, 5% White, 4% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 28.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at Hillview Crest Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hillview Crest Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.2%; this one delivers 29.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Alameda County) shows that median household earnings sit near $129,367, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Hillview Crest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Alternative Learning Academy at Conley-Caraballo High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillview Crest Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hillview Crest Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 34.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Hillview Crest Elementary's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 540 (now 420). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 70% to 63%. Class-load math has widened: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 28.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Hillview Crest Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.