Hillside Elementary School

As a substantial elementary-level community in FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan, Hillside Elementary School serves 682 students from grades K through 5, run under Farmington Public School District. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 85% bigger than typical.

Hillside Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Farmington Public School District, a district that enrolls 8,983 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Hillside Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Asian, 20% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Hillside Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Oakland County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hillside Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 58.9%; actual is 47.0%, a gap of -11.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Oakland County) records that median household earnings sit near $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Hillside Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Oakland FlexTech High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillside Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Hillside Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Hillside Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 624 (now 682). Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 37% to 30%.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.