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Enrollment
911
High
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSIDE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340729005540
Hillside High School
1085 LIBERTY AVE, HILLSIDE, NJ 07205 · (908) 352-7664 · Union County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL911 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of New Jersey public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
606 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 223 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 256 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 227 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 205 | 23% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 71% · 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
School pathway
Based on grade levels within Hillside Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
27.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . -13.4pp since 2023
Math
9.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +9.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.9% | 9.5% |
| 2023-24 | 41.3% | 0.0% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. 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
16.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for New Jersey 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 New Jersey'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 Hillside High School
Hillside High School's state test result (16.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside High School this school | 911 | 66.5% | 16.7% |
| Central High School NEWARK | 1,051 | 74.5% | 6.3% |
| Lincoln High School JERSEY CITY | 767 | 75.6% | 11.4% |
| Essex County Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology NEWARK | 1,230 | 73.4% | 43.0% |
| Malcolm X Shabazz High School NEWARK | 531 | 70.4% | 9.3% |
| Arts High School NEWARK | 611 | 68.2% | 30.2% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Hillside High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.7% | #341 of 397 | #25 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.5% | #331 of 400 ▲ 65 | #22 of 31 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #316 of 395 ▼ 18 | #27 of 31 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 911 | #197 of 442 | #15 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #286 of 388 | #13 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #177 of 389 | #13 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.5% | #81 of 405 | #14 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.8% | #104 of 173 | #14 of 24 |
Ranked against other public high 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
911
+50 (+6%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 748
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 911 | 67.2 | 13.6:1 | 67% (606) |
| 2023-24 | 927 | 70.2 | 13.2:1 | 60% (556) |
| 2022-23 | 925 | 77.2 | 12.0:1 | 53% (488) |
| 2020-21 | 861 | 83 | 10.4:1 | 57% (489) |
| 2017-18 | 853 | 78.2 | 10.9:1 | 65% (555) |
| 2015-16 | 897 | 78 | 11.5:1 | 65% (579) |
| 2010-11 | 916 | 75 | 12.2:1 | 45% (408) |
| 2000-01 | 859 | 65 | 13.2:1 | 35% (302) |
| 1990-91 | 748 | 56 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillside High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (853 to 911); teachers down 14% (78.2 to 67.2).
About Hillside High School
At 1085 LIBERTY AVE in HILLSIDE, New Jersey, Hillside High School operates as a medium-sized high school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 911 students in grades 9 through 12.
District-wide, Hillside Public School District has 7 schools and 2,957 students.
Roughly 55% of students at Hillside High School are Black. Other groups include 36% Hispanic and 7% White. By comparison, Union County residents are about 20% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 67.2 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 13.6:1. That is higher than the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey. Eligible students account for 67% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. Across public schools in Union County, the average is 52%.
The allk12 Grade for Hillside High School is C-. Compared with New Jersey public high schools, the school scored higher than 16% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Hillside High School scores 16.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 29.8%.
Union County has these Census figures: the median household income is $103,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Union County is home to 180 public schools and about 99,046 public school students.
The nearest other public school, Hurden Looker Elementary School, is about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Hillside High School is 7th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Hillside High School climbed 6% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 861 to 911 students. The ratio of students to teachers went from 10.4:1 to 13.6:1 over the same years.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Hillside High School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hillside Public School District
- Abram P. Morris Early Childhood CenterElementary · 625 students
- Hurden Looker Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Ola Edwards Community SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Walter O. Krumbiegel Middle SchoolMiddle · 323 students
- Deanna G. Taylor AcademyElementary · 202 students
- Hillside Innovation AcademyMiddle · 97 students
Other schools in HILLSIDE
- Abram P. Morris Early Childhood CenterElementary · 625 students
- Hurden Looker Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Ola Edwards Community SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Walter O. Krumbiegel Middle SchoolMiddle · 323 students
- Deanna G. Taylor AcademyElementary · 202 students
- Hillside Innovation AcademyMiddle · 97 students
Other Hillside High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Hillside High. Hillside High School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Hillside HighDurham, NC · 1,433 students
- Hillside HighUpland, CA · 119 students
Nearby schools
- Hurden Looker Elementary School0.4 mi · 408
- Hillside Innovation Academy0.7 mi · 97
- Deanna G. Taylor Academy0.7 mi · 202
- Abram P. Morris Early Childhood Center0.8 mi · 625
- Livingston Elementary0.8 mi · 485
- Walter O. Krumbiegel Middle School0.9 mi · 323
Frequently asked questions
About Hillside High SchoolHow many students attend Hillside High School?
Hillside High School enrolls approximately 911 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Hillside High School serve?
Hillside High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hillside High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hillside High School is approximately 13.6:1 (67 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hillside High School?
At Hillside High School, the student body is approximately 7% White, 36% Hispanic, 55% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Hillside High School public or private?
Hillside High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hillside Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.