Hilton Road Elementary School

Hilton Road Elementary School is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in BRIGHTON, Michigan, one of the schools within Brighton Area Schools, teacheing 507 students in grades K through 4. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Brighton Area Schools runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,796 students. Hilton Road Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hilton Road Elementary School lists that nearly all students (90%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Livingston County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hilton Road Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 7% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Livingston County runs at roughly 20%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hilton Road Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Livingston County shows median household earnings sit near $103,039, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Hilton Road Elementary School is one of 48 public schools in Livingston County (combined enrollment of about 24,695 students).

Spencer Road Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hilton Road Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 486 students in 2018 compared to 507 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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