HILLTOP ELEMENTARY

HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is a K-5 school of high-enrollment scale in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minnesota, one of the schools within INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS, hosting 626 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 82% above the state mean of about 344.

HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is one of 8 schools operated by INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS, a district that serves 3,427 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HILLTOP ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 16% Black, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting HILLTOP ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.4%; HILLTOP ELEMENTARY posts 22.2%, -13.2 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dakota County indicate median household income runs about $106,318, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

IGH EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HILLTOP ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HILLTOP ELEMENTARY has changed only slightly, going from 622 students in 2018 to 626 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 45% to 36%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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