Hill City Elementary

Hill City Elementary operates as a micro-enrollment elementary school in HILL CITY, Minnesota, run under Hill City Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 112 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 67% leaner than the state mean of about 344.

Hill City Public School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 267 students; Hill City Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Hill City Elementary reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 13% multiracial.

On the resource side, Hill City Elementary reports 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Aitkin County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hill City Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.5%; Hill City Elementary posts 51.4%, +19.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Aitkin County put median household income runs about $60,833, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Aitkin County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,670 students), of which Hill City Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hill City Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Hill City Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hill City Elementary at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 22.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Hill City Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 112 (now 112). The White share of enrollment declined from 92% to 86% over that span.

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