Hillcrest Elem School

Hillcrest Elem School is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in East Moline, Illinois, part of East Moline SD 37, hosting 353 students in grades K through 4.

East Moline SD 37 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,641 students; Hillcrest Elem School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hillcrest Elem School shows that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% White, 17% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Rock Island County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Rock Island County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Hillcrest Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.9%, the actual is 12.5%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Rock Island County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,159, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Hillcrest Elem School is one of 57 public schools in Rock Island County (combined enrollment of about 21,921 students).

Ridgewood Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hillcrest Elem School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillcrest Elem School has showed little movement, going from 348 students in 2018 to 353 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 24% across the same window.

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