Hill Intermediate Elementary School

Hill Intermediate Elementary School is an elementary-level community of close-knit scale in Bethel, Ohio, operated by Bethel-Tate Local, teacheing 308 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Hill Intermediate Elementary School sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Bethel-Tate Local, which oversees 4 schools and 1,346 students, Hill Intermediate Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Hill Intermediate Elementary School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Clermont County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Hill Intermediate Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Clermont County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hill Intermediate Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.1%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Clermont County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,510 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Clermont County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,246 students), of which Hill Intermediate Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Bick Primary Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hill Intermediate Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Hill Intermediate Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 407 (now 308). Over the same period, the White share declined from 95% to 88%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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