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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Hilltop Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
521
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SD U-46·NCES 171371005614
Hilltop Elementary School
1855 Rohrson Rd, Elgin, IL 60120 · (847) 289-6655 · Cook County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
257 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 46 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 19% smaller than its 6th grade class (78).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
53.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.6pp since 2023
Math
43.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +12.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.1% | 43.8% |
| 2023-24 | 41.5% | 30.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Hilltop Elementary School
Hilltop Elementary School's state test result (45.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilltop Elementary School this school | 521 | 49.3% | 45.1% |
| Booth Tarkington Elementary School Wheeling | 540 | 45.4% | 43.4% |
| Robert Frost Elementary School Mount Prospect | 532 | 57.9% | 26.2% |
| Americana Elementary School Glendale Heights | 401 | 54.6% | 42.8% |
| Glen Hill Elementary School Glendale Heights | 398 | 52.5% | 45.1% |
| Forest Elementary School Des Plaines | 658 | 50.3% | 59.6% |
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 Hilltop Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #733 of 1,925 | #192 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #855 of 2,077 ▼ 75 | #254 of 829 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #900 of 2,077 ▼ 143 | #284 of 829 ▼ 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 521 | #467 of 2,419 | #232 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #1,905 of 2,035 | #775 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.2% | #144 of 2,042 | #68 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.3% | #1,318 of 2,132 | #612 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.2% | #605 of 1,461 | #333 of 661 |
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
521
-84 (-14%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 682
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 | 521 | 29.3 | 17.8:1 | 49% (257) |
| 2023-24 | 498 | 27.5 | 18.1:1 | 42% (208) |
| 2022-23 | 526 | 29.4 | 17.9:1 | 41% (216) |
| 2020-21 | 605 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 622 | 30 | 20.7:1 | 50% (312) |
| 2015-16 | 666 | 28 | 23.8:1 | 42% (279) |
| 2010-11 | 682 | 26 | 26.2:1 | 41% (283) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hilltop Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (622 to 521); teachers down 2% (30 to 29.3).
About Hilltop Elementary School
Hilltop Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Illinois, located in Elgin. The school reports 521 students in pre-K through 6. The typical figure for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381 students.
Hilltop Elementary School is run by SD U-46, whose 51 schools enroll 34,036 students.
Hispanic students are the largest group at Hilltop Elementary School, with 45% of enrollment. Other reported shares: 24% Asian, 18% White, 7% Black, and 5% multiracial. Cook County's residents are about 27% Hispanic, 18 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Hilltop Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 70%.
Hilltop Elementary School employs 29.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 17.8:1. That ratio is over the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 49% in 2024-25. That rate is below the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.
On BeatsExpectations, Hilltop Elementary School is 2.1 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cook County show that median household income is about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Hilltop Elementary School is one of 1,406 public schools in Cook County, which together enroll about 697,934 students.
The next-closest public school is Elgin High School, about 1.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hilltop Elementary School. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Hilltop Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
The number of students declined from 605 to 521 over 4 years.
Questions about science fairs, picture day, and bus routes can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SD U-46
- South Elgin High SchoolHigh · 2,665 students
- Elgin High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Larkin High SchoolHigh · 2,174 students
- Bartlett High SchoolHigh · 2,037 students
- Streamwood High SchoolHigh · 1,890 students
- Kenyon Woods Middle SchoolMiddle · 873 students
Other schools in Elgin
- Elgin High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Larkin High SchoolHigh · 2,174 students
- Prairie Knolls Middle SchoolMiddle · 770 students
- Country Trails Elementary SchoolElementary · 751 students
- Lords Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 655 students
- Coleman Elementary SchoolElementary · 641 students
Other Hilltop Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named Hilltop Elementary. Hilltop Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 18.
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolMcHenry, IL · 424 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolARGYLE, TX · 788 students
- HILLTOP ELEMENTARYINVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN · 626 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolBonaire, GA · 590 students
- Hilltop ElementaryLYNNWOOD, WA · 562 students
Nearby schools
- Elgin High School1.2 mi · 2,576
- Timber Trails Elementary School1.3 mi · 363
- Lords Park Elementary School1.4 mi · 655
- Lincoln Elementary School1.5 mi · 467
- Streamwood High School1.6 mi · 1,890
- Ellis Middle School2.1 mi · 496
Frequently asked questions
About Hilltop Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hilltop Elementary School?
Hilltop Elementary School enrolls approximately 521 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Hilltop Elementary School serve?
Hilltop Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Hilltop Elementary School?
Approximately 17.8:1 students per teacher at Hilltop Elementary School.
How diverse is Hilltop Elementary School?
Hilltop Elementary School reports a student body of 18% White, 45% Hispanic, 7% Black, 24% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Hilltop Elementary School in?
Hilltop Elementary School is part of SD U-46.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.