Hillside El Sch

As a mid-sized K-5 school in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Hillside El Sch hosts 425 students from grades K through 4, one of the schools within Tredyffrin-Easttown SD.

Tredyffrin-Easttown SD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 6,815 students. Hillside El Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hillside El Sch records that White students make up the majority at 60%; the rest breaks down as 26% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Chester County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Chester County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Hillside El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.9%, the actual is 84.0%, a residual of +10.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Chester County) records that the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Chester County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), of which Hillside El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Conestoga SHS, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillside El Sch. On composite proficiency, Hillside El Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 79.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillside El Sch has stayed largely flat, going from 423 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025.

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