HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in HILLIARD, Florida, operated by NASSAU. Current enrollment sits at 687 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

NASSAU runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 12,575 students. HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Nassau County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nassau County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 54.3%; HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 73.3%, +18.9 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Nassau County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $89,804 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 22 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 12,575 students).

The closest other public school is HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH, roughly 0.5 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.8%.

HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 716 students in 2018 compared to 687 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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