Hillside Elementary School

Hillside Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in CLOSTER, New Jersey, part of Closter Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 599 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Hillside Elementary School sits 48% bigger than that benchmark.

Closter Public School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,192 students; Hillside Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Hillside Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Asian (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 17% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hillside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 74.9%, a residual of +9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bergen County put the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), Hillside Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Demarest Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillside Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Hillside Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.6%.

Hillside Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 666 students in 2018 compared to 599 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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