HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in LANCASTER, New York, operated by LANCASTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 451 students in grades K through 3.

LANCASTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,321 students. HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% Asian, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Erie County's rate of about 51%.

After controlling for student poverty, HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 70.3%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the area at large, Erie County reports that median household income runs about $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

JOHN A SCIOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 11%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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