Hillside Elementary School

Hillside Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in LIVINGSTON, New Jersey, operated by Livingston Board of Education School District, with 476 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Livingston Board of Education School District, which oversees 9 schools and 6,352 students, Hillside Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Hillside Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 55% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 29% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 6% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Hillside Elementary School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 3% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hillside Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 64.7%; Hillside Elementary School posts 80.2%, +15.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Hillside Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Livingston High School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hillside Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 76.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 21%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 41% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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