Enrollment
321
Elementary
DISTRICT 464 · STATE 272
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 317011001801
HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
20110 HOPPER ST, ELKHORN, NE 68022 · (402) 289-2602 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL321 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Nebraska public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 Nebraska public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 21.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
62 students
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 37%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 57% · 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
Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
78.4%
NE avg 57.6%
Math
76.0%
NE avg 60.6%
What this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
Source: NSCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
76.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on NE schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Nebraska's top nor bottom 10%.
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 HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (76.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 321 | 19.3% | 76.4% |
| UPCHURCH ELEMENTARY OMAHA | 402 | 17.2% | 81.5% |
| ROHWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMAHA | 450 | 16.9% | 75.2% |
| PORTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LA VISTA | 422 | 14.2% | 72.4% |
| WILLOWDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMAHA | 469 | 16.0% | 73.5% |
| OAKDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMAHA | 312 | 20.5% | 76.4% |
Matched among Nebraska 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 HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nebraska | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.4% | #25 of 311 | #19 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #57 of 398 | #22 of 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.4% | #18 of 438 | #14 of 109 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 321 | #230 of 587 | #79 of 125 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #60 of 379 | #7 of 117 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.8% | #216 of 379 | #89 of 117 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.3% | #287 of 359 | #31 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #92 of 220 | #32 of 68 |
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
321
-53 (-14%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 267
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 321 | 26.8 | 12.0:1 | 19% (62) |
| 2023-24 | 319 | 26.4 | 12.1:1 | 24% (75) |
| 2022-23 | 341 | 27.4 | 12.4:1 | 23% (79) |
| 2020-21 | 374 | 29 | 12.9:1 | 19% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 371 | 27 | 13.8:1 | 12% (45) |
| 2015-16 | 356 | 27 | 13.2:1 | 13% (46) |
| 2010-11 | 328 | 21 | 15.6:1 | 16% (53) |
| 2000-01 | 339 | 23 | 14.7:1 | 16% (53) |
| 1990-91 | 267 | 15 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (371 to 321); teachers down 1% (27 to 26.8).
About HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in ELKHORN, Nebraska. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 321 students enrolled.
ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS has 11,653 students spread across 20 schools.
At HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, White students make up 76% of the student body. The remaining shares are 11% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 2% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 41% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 26.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and a ratio of 12.0:1. This ratio sits 9.0 below the 21.0:1 average for elementary schools in Nebraska. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 19% of students.
allk12 grades HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with Nebraska public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6.7 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 76.4% actual, 69.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Nebraska.
HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Douglas County, where the median household income is $80,391, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 207 public schools in the county.
WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.6 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 14% from 2020-21, when HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 374 students, to 2024-25, when it had 321.
If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
590,736
Census ACS
Median income
$80,391
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
207
98,640 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- ELKHORN SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,434 students
- ELKHORN NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,050 students
- ELKHORN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 769 students
- ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 679 students
- BLUE SAGE ELEMENTARYElementary · 664 students
- WOODBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 641 students
Other schools in ELKHORN
- ELKHORN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 769 students
- ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 679 students
- BLUE SAGE ELEMENTARYElementary · 664 students
- WOODBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 641 students
- ELKHORN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 631 students
- ARBOR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 555 students
Other Hillrise Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Hillrise Elementary. HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- HILLRISE ELEMENTARYLAS CRUCES, NM · 421 students
Nearby schools
- WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 346
- ELKHORN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 631
- ARBOR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 555
- ELKHORN HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 769
- ELKHORN NORTH HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,050
- ELKHORN GRANDVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 520
Frequently asked questions
About HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 321 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.0:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 76% White, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HILLRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Douglas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.