HICKORY HILLS ELEM.

Set in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, HICKORY HILLS ELEM. is a reasonably sized K-5 school, run under SPRINGFIELD R-XII. It educates 340 students across grades K through 5.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 24,450 students. HICKORY HILLS ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, HICKORY HILLS ELEM. shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 2% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HICKORY HILLS ELEM. has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Greene County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HICKORY HILLS ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 44.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Greene County) reports that median household earnings sit near $61,479, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Greene County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), HICKORY HILLS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

HICKORY HILLS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HICKORY HILLS ELEM.. On composite proficiency, HICKORY HILLS ELEM. comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. HICKORY HILLS ELEM.'s enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 340).

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.