Hill Elementary School

Hill Elementary School is an elementary school of tight-knit scale in DAVISON, Michigan, operated by Davison Community Schools, hosting 261 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 369.

Within Davison Community Schools, which oversees 9 schools and 5,442 students, Hill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hill Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Genesee County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Hill Elementary School reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Hill Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Genesee County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hill Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Michigan schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 44.9%; actual is 66.0%, +21.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Genesee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,281 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Genesee County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students), of which Hill Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Hahn Intermediate School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hill Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 49.5%.

Hill Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hill Elementary School has decreased 8%, going from 284 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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