HILLSBORO ELEM.

HILLSBORO ELEM. is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in HILLSBORO, Missouri, one of the schools within HILLSBORO R-III, with 459 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 3. That puts it 46% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

HILLSBORO R-III runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,117 students. HILLSBORO ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On demographics, HILLSBORO ELEM. reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder reads as 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at HILLSBORO ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HILLSBORO ELEM. sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.6%; actual is 23.0%, a gap of -27.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Jefferson County reports that median household income runs about $82,851, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Jefferson County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), of which HILLSBORO ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is HILLSBORO JR. HIGH, roughly 0.1 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HILLSBORO ELEM. comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. HILLSBORO ELEM.'s enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 535 (now 459).

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.