Hillside Elementary School

Hillside Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in Allendale, New Jersey, operated by Allendale Public School District, with 348 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3.

Across the 2 schools in Allendale Public School District (850 students total), Hillside Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Hillside Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 2% of students at Hillside Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

After controlling for student poverty, Hillside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 78.1%, a residual of +13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bergen County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Hillside Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Brookside School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillside Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hillside Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 67.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillside Elementary School has fell 11%, going from 389 students in 2018 to 348 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 75% to 70%.

On this page, the feed for Hillside Elementary School typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.