Hillcrest Elementary School

The public elementary school Hillcrest Elementary School is located in Ruston, Louisiana. It offers kindergarten through 2 and has 326 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Louisiana have about 453 students on average; enrollment here is 28% lower.

Lincoln Parish oversees Hillcrest Elementary School and 11 other schools, with 5,601 students in total.

Black students make up 44% of enrollment at Hillcrest Elementary School, the largest share of any group. The remaining shares are 29% White, 17% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 69%.

The school's 24.3 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Louisiana is similar, at 14.0:1. Income data for the school show 67% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 57% average for public schools in Lincoln Parish.

For Lincoln Parish, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $39,172, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 21% of residents are in poverty. There are 14 public schools in the county, enrolling about 6,360, Hillcrest Elementary School among them.

Glen View Elementary School is about 1.3 miles from Hillcrest Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area, according to its NCES locale (Town: Distant).

Federal data show 325 students in 2020-21 and 326 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 18.1:1 to 13.4:1.

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