Hillview School
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 21% |
School pathway
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.5% | 74.1% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 70.8% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
Where Hillview School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #207 of 1,290 | #25 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.1% | #180 of 1,319 | #20 of 77 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #196 of 1,319 | #20 of 77 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 306 | #1,082 of 1,562 | #56 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,175 of 1,390 | #87 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.3% | #1,210 of 1,392 | #82 of 89 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #721 of 798 | #38 of 44 |
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free or reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 306 | 22.6 | 13.5:1 | 5% (16) |
| 2023-24 | 301 | 24.2 | 12.4:1 | 6% (17) |
| 2022-23 | 304 | 22.2 | 13.7:1 | 7% (20) |
| 2017-18 | 314 | 23.5 | 13.4:1 | 4% (13) |
About Hillview School
Hillview School is a small elementary school that serves part of Pompton Plains, New Jersey. The school had 306 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405, so this school runs 24% smaller than that.
Pequannock Township School District has 5 schools and 2,097 students, and Hillview School is one of those schools.
White students make up 82% of enrollment at Hillview School. The next largest groups are 11% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. In Morris County overall, about 68% of residents are White. The school's diversity index is 31%, meaning two students picked at random have a 31% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reports 22.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.5 students per teacher. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 5%. The average for public schools in Morris County is 19%.
Hillview School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 66.3% is 3.0 points above the 63.3% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census Bureau estimates for Morris County show that the median household income is $137,326, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 58% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 3%. There are 156 public schools in Morris County, enrolling about 72,239 students in all.
The closest other public school is Pequannock Valley School, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Hillview School is 2nd of 9 on proficiency.
Hillview School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
The school enrolled 306 students in 2024-25, 8 fewer than the 314 it had in 2017-18. White students went from 89% of enrollment in 2017-18 to 82% in 2024-25.
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