North Hill Elementary School

North Hill Elementary School, a compact elementary school in Burlington, Iowa, one of the schools within Burlington Comm School District, enrolls 268 students, covering grades K through 4.

Burlington Comm School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,140 students; North Hill Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, North Hill Elementary School logs that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Black, 16% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Des Moines County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.5%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Des Moines County) shows that median household earnings sit near $62,928, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Des Moines County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,632 students), of which North Hill Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sunnyside Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North Hill Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 56.5%.

North Hill Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Hill Elementary School has ticked down 14%, going from 312 students in 2018 to 268 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 49% across the same window.

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