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Which teacher or staff member at Hill Elem School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
511
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AURORA WEST USD 129·NCES 170471000161
Hill Elementary School
724 Pennsylvania Ave, Aurora, IL 60506 · (630) 301-5007 · Kane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL511 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
339 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 13 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 69% · 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
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
15.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.7pp since 2023
Math
16.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.7% | 16.2% |
| 2023-24 | 8.0% | 8.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
14.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Hill Elementary School
Hill Elementary School's state test result (14.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill Elementary School this school | 511 | 66.3% | 14.6% |
| Oakdale Elementary School Waukegan | 505 | 66.5% | 12.3% |
| CICS - Irving Park Campus Chicago | 453 | 68.0% | 38.9% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School Elgin | 509 | 68.0% | 26.8% |
| McAuliffe Elementary School Chicago | 523 | 66.3% | 18.2% |
| Reilly Elementary School Chicago | 539 | 67.7% | 22.2% |
Matched among Illinois 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 Hill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #1,766 of 1,925 | #69 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.2% | #1,700 of 2,077 ▲ 14 | #70 of 83 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.7% | #2,001 of 2,077 ▼ 15 | #81 of 83 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 511 | #508 of 2,419 | #25 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,165 of 2,035 | #33 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.1% | #1,369 of 2,042 | #64 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.3% | #837 of 2,132 | #23 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #377 of 1,461 | #12 of 51 |
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
511
-76 (-13%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 472
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 | 511 | 37.1 | 13.8:1 | 66% (339) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 35.9 | 14.3:1 | 54% (276) |
| 2022-23 | 565 | 37.7 | 15.0:1 | 55% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 655 | 37.4 | 17.5:1 | 64% (418) |
| 2015-16 | 581 | 35 | 16.6:1 | 92% (533) |
| 2010-11 | 544 | 29 | 18.8:1 | 78% (424) |
| 2000-01 | 535 | 30 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 472 | 22 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (655 to 511); teachers down 1% (37.4 to 37.1).
About Hill Elementary School
Hill Elementary School is an elementary school in Aurora, Illinois, according to federal school records. It covers pre-K through 5, with a total enrollment of 511 students. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students each.
Aurora West USD 129 is the district for Hill Elementary School. It has 16 schools and 11,020 students.
Federal enrollment data show Hill Elementary School is 82% Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 8% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 49 points above the 33% share among Kane County residents. Hill Elementary School's diversity index is 31%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at Hill Elementary School total 37.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.8:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 66%. Compared with the 48% average for public schools in Kane County, the school's rate is higher.
Hill Elementary School trails its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 18.6 points (14.6% versus 33.2%), a bottom-10% result in Illinois on BeatsExpectations.
Federal survey data for Kane County show that the median household income is $103,163, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 167 public schools in Kane County, enrolling about 87,252 students in all.
Nearby, Greenman Elementary School is about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Hill Elementary School ranks 7th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 14.6% against a local average of 31.2%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 511, a 13% decrease from 587 in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Hill Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Kane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
517,255
Census ACS
Median income
$103,163
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
167
87,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Aurora West USD 129
- West Aurora High SchoolHigh · 3,641 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 690 students
- Herget Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
- Freeman Elementary SchoolElementary · 529 students
- Greenman Elementary SchoolElementary · 528 students
Other schools in Aurora
- East High SchoolHigh · 4,020 students
- West Aurora High SchoolHigh · 3,641 students
- Waubonsie Valley High SchoolHigh · 2,849 students
- Metea Valley High SchoolHigh · 2,766 students
- Francis Granger Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Fischer Middle SchoolMiddle · 861 students
Other Hill Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 4 states are named Hill Elementary. Hill Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 7.
- Hill Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 811 students
- Hill Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 646 students
- Hill Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 557 students
- HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 402 students
- Hill Elementary SchoolTROY, MI · 363 students
Nearby schools
- Greenman Elementary School0.8 mi · 528
- McCleery Elementary School1.0 mi · 513
- Benavides Steam Academy1.1 mi · 326
- Smith Elementary School1.1 mi · 425
- Jefferson Middle School1.2 mi · 577
- West Aurora High School1.2 mi · 3,641
Frequently asked questions
About Hill Elementary SchoolHow large is Hill Elementary School?
Hill Elementary School enrolls approximately 511 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Hill Elementary School serve?
Hill Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hill Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hill Elementary School is approximately 13.8:1 (37 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Hill Elementary School?
Hill Elementary School reports a student body of 5% White, 82% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Hill Elementary School in?
Hill Elementary School is part of Aurora West USD 129.
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