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What's the biggest difference between Hillcrest Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
556
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS·NCES 370003000201
Hillcrest Elementary
1714 W Davis Street, Burlington, NC 27215 · (336) 570-6120 · Alamance County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL556 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
553 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 29 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
26.5%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
40.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. 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
35.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina 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 North Carolina'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 Hillcrest Elementary
Hillcrest Elementary's state test result (35.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillcrest Elementary this school | 556 | 99.5% | 35.2% |
| Millbrook Elementary Raleigh | 534 | 99.4% | 43.7% |
| Creech Road Elementary Garner | 549 | 99.5% | 49.8% |
| Scurlock Elementary Raeford | 611 | 99.5% | 47.4% |
| Griffith Elementary Winston Salem | 621 | 99.5% | 48.0% |
| Forestville Road Elementary Knightdale | 570 | 99.5% | 47.7% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary 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 Hillcrest Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Alamance County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #1,188 of 1,297 | #13 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #1,134 of 1,296 | #12 of 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #1,235 of 1,300 | #15 of 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 556 | #447 of 1,485 | #7 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #766 of 1,377 | #8 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #355 of 1,379 | #11 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #196 of 1,414 | #3 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.5% | #426 of 937 | #3 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
556
-44 (-7%) vs 2020
-20% since 2000-01, when it was 697
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 556 | 36.9 | 15.1:1 | 99% (553) |
| 2023-24 | 522 | 36.3 | 14.4:1 | 99% (519) |
| 2022-23 | 582 | 41.7 | 13.9:1 | 99% (579) |
| 2020-21 | 600 | 41 | 14.6:1 | 100% (597) |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 38.2 | 17.0:1 | 99% (644) |
| 2015-16 | 634 | 43 | 14.7:1 | 100% (631) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 39 | 14.2:1 | 76% (419) |
| 2000-01 | 697 | 40 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillcrest Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (650 to 556); teachers down 3% (38.2 to 36.9).
About Hillcrest Elementary
Hillcrest Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Burlington, North Carolina. Federal data show 556 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Alamance-Burlington Schools enrolls 22,661 students in 37 schools, including Hillcrest Elementary.
The biggest share of students at Hillcrest Elementary, 40%, is Hispanic. The remaining shares are 39% Black, 12% White, and 9% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Alamance County's population at about 15%. The diversity index for Hillcrest Elementary is 67%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 36.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, Hillcrest Elementary has a ratio of 15.1:1. The ratio is within a point of the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Income data for the school show 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 80% for public schools in Alamance County.
Hillcrest Elementary earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 8% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 48.5% at Hillcrest Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 35.2%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Alamance County show that the median household earns about $65,651 a year, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Alamance County has 42 public schools with about 25,737 students, including Hillcrest Elementary.
Hillcrest Elementary's nearest public school is Turrentine Middle (about 0.8 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hillcrest Elementary. Hillcrest Elementary places 3rd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Small.
The school's student count fell 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Alamance County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
176,893
Census ACS
Median income
$65,651
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
25,737 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Alamance-Burlington Schools
- Walter M Williams HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Southern Alamance HighHigh · 1,148 students
- Western Alamance HighHigh · 1,138 students
- Southeast Alamance HighHigh · 1,079 students
- Eastern Alamance HighHigh · 952 students
- Hawfields MiddleMiddle · 864 students
Other schools in Burlington
- Walter M Williams HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Clover GardenCombined · 963 students
- Hugh M Cummings HighHigh · 807 students
- Turrentine MiddleMiddle · 739 students
- Highland ElementaryElementary · 661 students
- Marvin B Smith ElementaryElementary · 556 students
Other Hillcrest Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 24 states are named Hillcrest Elementary. Hillcrest Elementary is the 10th largest of the 42.
- Hillcrest ElementaryMorganton, NC · 254 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolLake Stevens, WA · 842 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolEnterprise, AL · 753 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolNEDERLAND, TX · 717 students
- Hillcrest ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 678 students
Nearby schools
- Turrentine Middle0.8 mi · 739
- Walter M Williams High1.2 mi · 1,206
- Grove Park Elementary1.6 mi · 437
- Marvin B Smith Elementary2.0 mi · 556
- Elon Elementary2.1 mi · 689
- Harvey R Newlin Elementary3.2 mi · 491
Frequently asked questions
About Hillcrest ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Hillcrest Elementary?
Hillcrest Elementary enrolls approximately 556 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hillcrest Elementary serve?
Hillcrest Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hillcrest Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hillcrest Elementary is approximately 15.1:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hillcrest Elementary?
At Hillcrest Elementary, the student body is approximately 12% White, 40% Hispanic, 39% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Hillcrest Elementary public or private?
Hillcrest Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Alamance-Burlington Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.