Enrollment
338
Elementary
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ADAMS 12 FIVE STAR SCHOOLS·NCES 080690001177
Hillcrest Elementary School
10335 CROKE DRIVE, NORTHGLENN, CO 80221 · (720) 972-5380 · Adams County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL338 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Colorado public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
285 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 62% · 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
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
14.9%
CO avg 44.9% . -3.9pp since 2023
Math
10.3%
CO avg 36.1% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.9% | 10.3% |
| 2023-24 | 18.8% | 12.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 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 (14.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillcrest Elementary School this school | 338 | 84.3% | 14.8% |
| Deane Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 341 | 80.1% | 11.6% |
| Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School ARVADA | 364 | 88.5% | 16.1% |
| Fairview PK-8 DENVER | 397 | 88.2% | 10.7% |
| North Mor Elementary School NORTHGLENN | 304 | 79.3% | 17.3% |
| Mesa Elementary School WESTMINSTER | 317 | 89.9% | 19.7% |
Matched among Colorado 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 Colorado | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.8% | #862 of 931 | #73 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.3% | #883 of 940 ▼ 37 | #72 of 89 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #890 of 946 ▼ 53 | #78 of 89 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 338 | #594 of 1,056 | #70 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #167 of 896 | #3 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.2% | #716 of 896 | #62 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.3% | #111 of 983 | #29 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.3% | #106 of 664 | #8 of 63 |
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
338
-72 (-18%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 548
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 338 | 25 | 13.5:1 | 84% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 358 | 25.5 | 14.0:1 | 87% (310) |
| 2022-23 | 391 | 25 | 15.6:1 | 82% (319) |
| 2020-21 | 410 | 27 | 15.2:1 | 85% (349) |
| 2017-18 | 485 | 29.3 | 16.6:1 | 85% (410) |
| 2015-16 | 456 | 27 | 16.9:1 | 81% (371) |
| 2010-11 | 491 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 68% (332) |
| 2000-01 | 480 | 25 | 19.2:1 | 30% (145) |
| 1990-91 | 548 | 26 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillcrest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (485 to 338); teachers down 15% (29.3 to 25).
About Hillcrest Elementary School
Hillcrest Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school based in NORTHGLENN, Colorado. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 338 students.
Hillcrest Elementary School belongs to Adams 12 Five Star Schools, a district of 54 schools and 34,466 students.
At Hillcrest Elementary School, 78% of students are Hispanic. It is also 12% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. For comparison, the population of Adams County is roughly 43% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Hillcrest Elementary School scores 38%.
Classroom staffing at Hillcrest Elementary School totals 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Hillcrest Elementary School is about 84%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Adams County is 62%.
On the allk12 Grade, Hillcrest Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 13% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Hillcrest Elementary School is within a point of the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 14.8% actual, 15.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Colorado.
The school is in Adams County, where the median household earns about $94,571 a year, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across Adams County, 171 public schools serve about 87,938 students.
Hillcrest Elementary School's nearest public school is Northglenn High School (about 0.4 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hillcrest Elementary School. Hillcrest Elementary School places 7th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 338, compared with 410 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 15.2 in 2020-21 to 13.5 in 2024-25.
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Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
530,225
Census ACS
Median income
$94,571
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
171
87,938 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Adams 12 Five Star Schools
- Legacy High SchoolHigh · 2,052 students
- Horizon High SchoolHigh · 1,966 students
- Northglenn High SchoolHigh · 1,844 students
- Mountain Range High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Stargate Charter SchoolCombined · 1,572 students
- Prospect Ridge AcademyCombined · 1,478 students
Other schools in NORTHGLENN
- Northglenn High SchoolHigh · 1,844 students
- Silver Hills Middle SchoolMiddle · 965 students
- Global Village Academy - NorthElementary · 838 students
- STEM LabElementary · 740 students
- Northglenn Middle SchoolMiddle · 672 students
- Hulstrom K-8Elementary · 663 students
Other Hillcrest Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 24 states are named Hillcrest Elementary. Hillcrest Elementary School is the 32nd largest of the 42.
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolLake Stevens, WA · 842 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolEnterprise, AL · 753 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolNEDERLAND, TX · 717 students
- Hillcrest ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 678 students
- HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE WALES, FL · 667 students
Nearby schools
- Northglenn High School0.4 mi · 1,844
- Westview Elementary School0.5 mi · 402
- Vantage Point0.8 mi · 331
- STEM Launch1.0 mi · 677
- North Mor Elementary School1.0 mi · 304
- The Studio School1.1 mi · 215
Frequently asked questions
About Hillcrest Elementary SchoolHow large is Hillcrest Elementary School?
Hillcrest Elementary School enrolls approximately 338 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Hillcrest Elementary School serve?
Hillcrest Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hillcrest Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hillcrest Elementary School is approximately 13.5:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Hillcrest Elementary School?
Hillcrest Elementary School reports a student body of 12% White, 78% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Hillcrest Elementary School public or private?
Hillcrest Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Adams 12 Five Star Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.