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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Hillside Elementary School?
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Enrollment
682
Elementary
DISTRICT 494 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 261407007669
Hillside Elementary School
36801 W 11 MILE RD, FARMINGTON HILLS, MI 48335 · (248) 489-3773 · Oakland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL682 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% of Michigan public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
113 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 55%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 123 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 121 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (123) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 56% · 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
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
48.2%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
51.8%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Hillside Elementary School
Hillside Elementary School's state test result (47.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside Elementary School this school | 682 | 16.6% | 47.0% |
| Farmington STEAM Academy FARMINGTON HILLS | 714 | 9.7% | 64.4% |
| Thurston Elementary School ANN ARBOR | 506 | 20.2% | 59.9% |
| Orchard Hills Elementary School NOVI | 453 | 18.5% | 65.5% |
| Workman Elementary School CANTON | 637 | 10.7% | 57.3% |
| Hickory Woods Elementary School NOVI | 499 | 27.9% | 57.8% |
Matched among Michigan 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 Hillside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Oakland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #506 of 1,085 | #101 of 147 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #396 of 1,072 | #86 of 144 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #534 of 1,139 | #107 of 157 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 682 | #77 of 1,630 | #4 of 178 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,039 of 1,424 | #137 of 170 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.7% | #63 of 1,424 | #6 of 170 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.6% | #1,438 of 1,563 | #120 of 175 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.3% | #201 of 440 | #23 of 48 |
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
682
+65 (+11%) vs 2020
+31% since 2000-01, when it was 522
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 18.1:1
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 | 682 | 39.3 | 17.4:1 | 17% (113) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 39.1 | 16.3:1 | 21% (135) |
| 2022-23 | 629 | 37.2 | 16.9:1 | 22% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 617 | 34 | 18.1:1 | 22% (135) |
| 2017-18 | 624 | 34.3 | 18.2:1 | 18% (115) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 30 | 17.8:1 | 17% (89) |
| 2010-11 | 544 | 29 | 18.8:1 | 19% (103) |
| 2000-01 | 522 | 33 | 15.8:1 | 3% (17) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (624 to 682); teachers up 14% (34.3 to 39.3).
About Hillside Elementary School
Located in FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan, Hillside Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school. The school counted 682 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. The school is 85% above the average for elementary schools in Michigan.
Farmington Public School District has 8,983 students spread across 16 schools.
White students make up 40% of enrollment at Hillside Elementary School, the largest share of any group. Other reported shares: 30% Asian, 20% Black, 4% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 69% White among all Oakland County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 71%.
For every teacher at Hillside Elementary School, there are about 17.4 students; the school has 39.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Michigan is 15.8:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 113 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 17% of enrollment. Public schools in Oakland County average 32%.
Hillside Elementary School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 31% of Michigan public elementary schools.
Test results at Hillside Elementary School are 11.9 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 47.0%, compared with a predicted 58.9%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Michigan.
American Community Survey estimates for Oakland County show that the median household earns about $97,760 a year, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Oakland County has 345 public schools with about 169,926 students, including Hillside Elementary School.
Oakland FlexTech High School is about 1.5 miles from Hillside Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Hillside Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 56.9%, higher than Hillside Elementary School's 47.0%.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 65 students, from 617 to 682.
The discussion board for Hillside Elementary School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Oakland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,279,825
Census ACS
Median income
$97,760
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
345
169,926 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Farmington Public School District
- Farmington High SchoolHigh · 1,470 students
- North Farmington High SchoolHigh · 1,157 students
- Farmington STEAM AcademyElementary · 714 students
- Power Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Warner Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- East Middle SchoolMiddle · 555 students
Other schools in FARMINGTON HILLS
- North Farmington High SchoolHigh · 1,157 students
- Farmington STEAM AcademyElementary · 714 students
- Power Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Warner Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- East Middle SchoolMiddle · 555 students
- JA Lanigan Elementary SchoolElementary · 473 students
Other Hillside Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 16 states are named Hillside Elementary. Hillside Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 25.
- Hillside Elementary SchoolMONTCLAIR, NJ · 684 students
- Hillside ElementaryAshburn, VA · 656 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolCLOSTER, NJ · 599 students
- Hillside ElementarySan Bernardino, CA · 586 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolJBLM Lewis Main, WA · 567 students
Nearby schools
- Oakland FlexTech High School1.5 mi · 162
- Longacre Elementary School1.6 mi · 443
- Oakland Early College2.2 mi · 179
- Village Oaks Elementary School2.3 mi · 499
- Farmington STEAM Academy2.3 mi · 714
- Novi Adult Transition Center2.4 mi · 9
Frequently asked questions
About Hillside Elementary SchoolHow large is Hillside Elementary School?
Hillside Elementary School enrolls approximately 682 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Hillside Elementary School serve?
Hillside Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Hillside Elementary School?
Approximately 17.4:1 students per teacher at Hillside Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hillside Elementary School?
At Hillside Elementary School, the student body is approximately 40% White, 4% Hispanic, 20% Black, 30% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Hillside Elementary School?
Hillside Elementary School is overseen by Farmington Public School District in Oakland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.