Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TROUP COUNTY·NCES 130000101706
Hillcrest Elementary School
3116 Robert Hayes Rd, Lagrange, GA 30240 · (706) 812-7940 · Troup County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
322 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 74%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 71% · 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
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
67.7%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.5pp since 2021
Math
73.9%
GA avg 44.6% . +8.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.7% | 73.9% |
| 2023-24 | 65.7% | 77.8% |
| 2022-23 | 62.9% | 76.1% |
| 2021-22 | 60.2% | 65.2% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
69.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+34.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 34 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 (69.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillcrest Elementary School this school | 390 | 82.6% | 69.1% |
| Mansfield Elementary School Mansfield | 384 | 76.8% | 52.9% |
| Social Circle Elementary School Social Circle | 436 | 77.3% | 45.6% |
| Stilson Elementary School Brooklet | 451 | 78.9% | 40.0% |
| Nevils Elementary School Statesboro | 481 | 79.2% | 56.5% |
| Lyerly Elementary School Lyerly | 335 | 86.6% | 31.2% |
Matched among Georgia 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 Georgia | In Troup County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #105 of 1,208 | #1 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #91 of 1,215 ▼ 30 | #1 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.7% | #84 of 1,215 ▲ 38 | #1 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.1pp | #210 of 1,183 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #1,113 of 1,324 | #10 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,078 of 1,301 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.8% | #910 of 1,301 | #9 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.6% | #684 of 1,312 | #9 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.7% | #758 of 854 | #7 of 7 |
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
390
+35 (+10%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 488
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 390 | 26.1 | 14.9:1 | 83% (322) |
| 2023-24 | 376 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 62% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 372 | 26.2 | 14.2:1 | 40% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 355 | 23 | 15.4:1 | 33% (117) |
| 2017-18 | 405 | 26 | 15.6:1 | 41% (168) |
| 2015-16 | 382 | 26 | 14.7:1 | 49% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 30 | 12.8:1 | 56% (214) |
| 2000-01 | 529 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 45% (236) |
| 1990-91 | 488 | 27 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillcrest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (405 to 390); teachers unchanged (26 to 26.1).
About Hillcrest Elementary School
Hillcrest Elementary School is the name of a small elementary school in Lagrange, Georgia. In all, 390 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. The school is 36% below the average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Hillcrest Elementary School falls under Troup County, which has 19 schools enrolling 12,262 students.
The student body at Hillcrest Elementary School is 74% White. The school is also 15% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. The White share of the county population is lower, at 55%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
Hillcrest Elementary School lists 26.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.9 students per teacher. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1. About 83% of students at Hillcrest Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Troup County is 92%.
Test results at Hillcrest Elementary School are 34.4 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 69.1%, compared with a predicted 34.7%, which ranks in the top 10% in Georgia.
American Community Survey estimates for Troup County show that median household income comes to about $56,776, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Troup County counts 19 public schools with about 12,262 students.
Measured in a straight line, Franklin Forest Elementary is about 3.4 miles from Hillcrest Elementary School. Within five miles are 7 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Hillcrest Elementary School is 1st of 9 on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Hillcrest Elementary School is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 390, from 355 in 2020-21.
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Troup County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
70,330
Census ACS
Median income
$56,776
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
12,262 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Troup County
- LaGrange High SchoolHigh · 1,399 students
- Troup County High SchoolHigh · 1,272 students
- Long Cane Middle SchoolMiddle · 988 students
- Gardner-Newman Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
- Callaway High SchoolHigh · 930 students
- Franklin Forest ElementaryElementary · 690 students
Other schools in Lagrange
- LaGrange High SchoolHigh · 1,399 students
- Troup County High SchoolHigh · 1,272 students
- Long Cane Middle SchoolMiddle · 988 students
- Gardner-Newman Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
- Franklin Forest ElementaryElementary · 690 students
- Clearview Elementary SchoolElementary · 676 students
Other Hillcrest Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 24 states are named Hillcrest Elementary. Hillcrest Elementary School is the 24th largest of the 42.
- Hillcrest ElementaryDublin, GA · 546 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolLake Stevens, WA · 842 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolEnterprise, AL · 753 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolNEDERLAND, TX · 717 students
- Hillcrest ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 678 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Forest Elementary3.4 mi · 690
- Callaway Middle School3.8 mi · 656
- Callaway Elementary School3.8 mi · 638
- Callaway High School4.3 mi · 930
- Hollis Hand Elementary School4.8 mi · 579
- The Hope Academy School4.8 mi · 83
Frequently asked questions
About Hillcrest Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Hillcrest Elementary School?
Hillcrest Elementary School enrolls approximately 390 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hillcrest Elementary School serve?
Hillcrest Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Hillcrest Elementary School have?
Hillcrest Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hillcrest Elementary School?
At Hillcrest Elementary School, the student body is approximately 74% White, 4% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Hillcrest Elementary School?
Hillcrest Elementary School is overseen by Troup County in Troup County.
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