Hillcrest Elementary

Set in Dublin, Georgia, Hillcrest Elementary is a mid-tier primary school, operated by Dublin City. It educates 546 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Dublin City comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,370 students; Hillcrest Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Hillcrest Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%); the rest breaks down as 9% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Laurens County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Hillcrest Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Laurens County's rate of about 91%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hillcrest Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Around the school, Laurens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $55,010 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Laurens County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,693 students), Hillcrest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Moore Street Facility is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hillcrest Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillcrest Elementary has edged up 4%, going from 525 students in 2018 to 546 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 88% to 83% across the same window.

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