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Hilltop Elementary School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% typical for Ohio 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 Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hilltop Elementary School
Located at 400 Hilltop Blvd, in Canfield, Ohio, Hilltop Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus that works with 476 students (grades K through 4), one of the schools within Canfield Local.
Canfield Local runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,453 students. Hilltop Elementary School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Hilltop Elementary School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Mahoning County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Hilltop Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 23% of students at Hilltop Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mahoning County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Hilltop Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 80.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 83.7%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Mahoning County) records that the typical household earns roughly $56,942 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mahoning County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,927 students), Hilltop Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Canfield Village Middle School, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hilltop Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 88.6%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Hilltop Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 449 (now 476). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.
On the community side, the feed for Hilltop Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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