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Alumni: what's one memory from Hillside Middle School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
476
Middle
DISTRICT 706 · STATE 502
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KALAMAZOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 261995005658
Hillside Middle School
1941 ALAMO AVE, KALAMAZOO, MI 49006 · (269) 337-0570 · Kalamazoo County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL476 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
286 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 170 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 146 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 160 | 34% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
26.7%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
25.8%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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
27.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% 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 Middle School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside Middle School this school | 476 | 60.1% | 27.7% |
| Adams Middle School WESTLAND | 591 | 65.1% | N/A |
| Middle School South HARRISON TOWNSHIP | 383 | 56.1% | 27.9% |
| Linden Grove Middle School KALAMAZOO | 727 | 62.7% | 34.6% |
| Clarenceville Middle School LIVONIA | 370 | 69.5% | N/A |
| Hazel Park Junior High School HAZEL PARK | 413 | 71.4% | N/A |
Matched among Michigan middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Kalamazoo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.7% | #363 of 397 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #299 of 380 | #7 of 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #355 of 377 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 476 | #256 of 491 | #9 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #204 of 436 | #6 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.2% | #41 of 437 | #5 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.1% | #144 of 477 | #5 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.2% | #119 of 339 | #2 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
476
-86 (-15%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 572
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 22.5:1
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 | 476 | 27.5 | 17.3:1 | 60% (286) |
| 2023-24 | 474 | 24.2 | 19.6:1 | 58% (275) |
| 2022-23 | 512 | 25 | 20.5:1 | 71% (366) |
| 2020-21 | 562 | 25 | 22.5:1 | 73% (412) |
| 2017-18 | 575 | 30.6 | 18.8:1 | 72% (412) |
| 2015-16 | 576 | 29 | 19.9:1 | 59% (338) |
| 2010-11 | 517 | 30 | 17.2:1 | 68% (353) |
| 2000-01 | 636 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 45% (285) |
| 1990-91 | 572 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillside Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (575 to 476); teachers down 10% (30.6 to 27.5).
About Hillside Middle School
Hillside Middle School is a mid-sized middle school that serves part of KALAMAZOO, Michigan. It has an enrollment of 476 students in grades 6 through 8.
The district, Kalamazoo Public Schools, has 12,227 students enrolled across 26 schools.
Of every 100 students at Hillside Middle School, about 44 are Black, the largest group. It is also 36% White, 15% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Kalamazoo County is roughly 11% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.
There are 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Hillside Middle School, giving a ratio of 17.3:1. The ratio is within a point of the 17.5:1 average for middle schools in Michigan. On the income side, 60% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Kalamazoo County, the average is 45%.
Hillside Middle School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 12.0 points (27.7% versus 39.7%), a bottom-10% result in Michigan on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Kalamazoo County area, the median household earns about $72,532 a year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Kalamazoo County has 93 public schools with about 34,151 students, including Hillside Middle School.
KingWestwood Elementary School sits about 0.8 miles from Hillside Middle School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Hillside Middle School ranks 5th in a group of 5 nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, Hillside Middle School is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 562 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 476 by 2024-25. The number of students per teacher dropped from 22.5 to 17.3 over 4 years.
This page is set up for the Hillside Middle School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Kalamazoo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
262,375
Census ACS
Median income
$72,532
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
93
34,151 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kalamazoo Public Schools
- Loy Norrix High SchoolHigh · 1,785 students
- Kalamazoo Central High SchoolHigh · 1,613 students
- Maple Street Magnet School for the ArtsMiddle · 889 students
- Milwood Magnet SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Linden Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 727 students
- KingWestwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
Other schools in KALAMAZOO
- Loy Norrix High SchoolHigh · 1,785 students
- Kalamazoo Central High SchoolHigh · 1,613 students
- Maple Street Magnet School for the ArtsMiddle · 889 students
- Milwood Magnet SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Linden Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 727 students
- Comstock Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
Other Hillside Middle schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Hillside Middle. Hillside Middle School is the 6th largest of the 6.
- Hillside Middle SchoolNORTHVILLE, MI · 1,024 students
- Hillside MiddleSimi Valley, CA · 1,138 students
- Hillside Middle SchoolManchester, NH · 1,071 students
- Hillside Middle SchoolSeven Hills, OH · 717 students
- Hillside MiddleSALT LAKE CITY, UT · 485 students
Nearby schools
- KingWestwood Elementary School0.8 mi · 531
- Woodward Elementary1.0 mi · 242
- Northglade Montessori School1.1 mi · 271
- Indian Prairie Elementary School1.1 mi · 169
- Lincoln International Studies School1.6 mi · 306
- Kalamazoo RESA West CampusYoung Adult Program1.7 mi · 126
Frequently asked questions
About Hillside Middle SchoolHow many students attend Hillside Middle School?
Hillside Middle School enrolls approximately 476 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Hillside Middle School serve?
Hillside Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hillside Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hillside Middle School is approximately 17.3:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Hillside Middle School?
Hillside Middle School reports a student body of 36% White, 4% Hispanic, 44% Black, 1% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is Hillside Middle School public or private?
Hillside Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kalamazoo Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.