HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL

HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL, a large four-year high school in AMMON, Idaho, one of the schools within BONNEVILLE JOINT DISTRICT, hosts 1,230 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 170% bigger than the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 455 students.

HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL is one of 26 schools operated by BONNEVILLE JOINT DISTRICT, a district that teaches 13,577 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bonneville County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Bonneville County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,068 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL is one of 57 public schools in Bonneville County (combined enrollment of about 27,028 students).

The closest other public school is SANDCREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL.

HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 1,624 (now 1,230). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 today.

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