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What's the most underrated thing about HILLTOP ELEMENTARY that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
626
Elementary
DISTRICT 311 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS·NCES 271503000763
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY
3201 68TH ST E, INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN 55076 · (651) 306-7400 · Dakota County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL626 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
345 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 44 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 117 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 60% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY→INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE
Based on grade levels within INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
26.1%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
26.1%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 26 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 Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.4%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Minnesota 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 HILLTOP ELEMENTARY
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY's state test result (22.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILLTOP ELEMENTARY this school | 626 | 55.1% | 22.2% |
| Riverside Central Elementary School ROCHESTER | 509 | 59.7% | 29.4% |
| Bancroft Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 477 | 56.4% | 40.2% |
| Lincoln Center Elementary SOUTH SAINT PAUL | 670 | 56.1% | 34.6% |
| Harriet Bishop Elementary SAVAGE | 511 | 52.4% | 40.8% |
| PINE BEND ELEMENTARY INVER GROVE HEIGHTS | 511 | 48.3% | 33.3% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary 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 HILLTOP ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Dakota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #741 of 844 | #58 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #716 of 844 | #57 of 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #737 of 844 | #59 of 60 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 626 | #138 of 1,130 | #16 of 73 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #569 of 769 | #47 of 58 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.0% | #68 of 796 | #11 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.1% | #270 of 942 | #13 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.6% | #237 of 244 | #17 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
626
+108 (+21%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 490
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 626 | 41 | 15.3:1 | 55% (345) |
| 2023-24 | 613 | 41.7 | 14.7:1 | 60% (370) |
| 2022-23 | 574 | 40.7 | 14.1:1 | 62% (358) |
| 2020-21 | 518 | 41 | 12.6:1 | 45% (235) |
| 2017-18 | 622 | 37.4 | 16.6:1 | 54% (336) |
| 2015-16 | 679 | 42 | 16.2:1 | 50% (338) |
| 2010-11 | 693 | 39 | 17.8:1 | 38% (265) |
| 2000-01 | 451 | 25 | 18.0:1 | 18% (82) |
| 1990-91 | 490 | 26 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HILLTOP ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (622 to 626); teachers up 10% (37.4 to 41).
About HILLTOP ELEMENTARY
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY operates as a large elementary school in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minnesota. A total of 626 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Minnesota is about 344 students, so this school is 82% above average.
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS is made up of 8 schools with 3,427 students in all.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at HILLTOP ELEMENTARY. The largest is White students, at 36%. The next largest groups are 32% Hispanic, 16% Black, 12% multiracial, and 4% Asian. In Dakota County overall, about 74% of residents are White. The school's diversity index is 73%, meaning two students picked at random have a 73% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.3:1. This ratio sits 1.6 above the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 55% in 2024-25. That rate is above the 34% average among public schools in Dakota County.
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of Minnesota public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is 35.4%. It actually posts 22.2%, which is 13.2 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Minnesota schools.
In Dakota County (population about 445,771), the median household income is $106,318, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is one of 170 public schools in the county.
The next-closest public school is IGH EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is behind the 30.1% nearby average, ranking 6th of 7.
The federal government classifies HILLTOP ELEMENTARY's location as Suburb: Large.
The school enrolled 626 students in 2024-25, 108 more than the 518 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.6:1 in 2020-21 to 15.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Dakota County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
445,771
Census ACS
Median income
$106,318
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
170
74,687 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS
- SIMLEY SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,030 students
- INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLEMiddle · 817 students
- PINE BEND ELEMENTARYElementary · 511 students
- SALEM HILLS ELEMENTARYElementary · 281 students
- ATHENEUM ELEMENTARYElementary · 69 students
- IGH EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMElementary · 68 students
Other schools in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS
- SIMLEY SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,030 students
- INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLEMiddle · 817 students
- PINE BEND ELEMENTARYElementary · 511 students
- SALEM HILLS ELEMENTARYElementary · 281 students
- Discovery Charter Elementary SchoolElementary · 166 students
- STEAM Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 77 students
Other Hilltop Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named Hilltop Elementary. HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is the 2nd largest of the 18.
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolARGYLE, TX · 788 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolBonaire, GA · 590 students
- Hilltop ElementaryLYNNWOOD, WA · 562 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolAZLE, TX · 537 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolElgin, IL · 521 students
Nearby schools
- IGH EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM0.1 mi · 68
- Discovery Charter Elementary School0.9 mi · 166
- STEAM Academy Charter School0.9 mi · 77
- Kaposia Education Center Elementary1.3 mi · 620
- SIMLEY SENIOR HIGH1.4 mi · 1,030
- SIMLEY ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM1.4 mi · 25
Frequently asked questions
About HILLTOP ELEMENTARYHow large is HILLTOP ELEMENTARY?
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 626 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does HILLTOP ELEMENTARY serve?
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at HILLTOP ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at HILLTOP ELEMENTARY.
What is the student diversity at HILLTOP ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at HILLTOP ELEMENTARY are roughly 36% White, 32% Hispanic, 16% Black, 4% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is HILLTOP ELEMENTARY in?
HILLTOP ELEMENTARY is part of INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.