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What advice would you give to incoming students at Hillside El Sch?
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Enrollment
408
Elementary
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST SHORE SD·NCES 422583001716
Hillside Elementary School
516 7th St, New Cumberland, PA 17070 · (717) 774-1321 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL408 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
272 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 75%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 21% smaller than its 4th grade class (89).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 59% · 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
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
45.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.7pp since 2023
Math
51.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.4% | 51.7% |
| 2023-24 | 51.1% | 47.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. 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
51.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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 Hillside Elementary School
Hillside Elementary School's state test result (51.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside Elementary School this school | 408 | 66.7% | 51.9% |
| Robert Reid Elementary School Middletown | 410 | 71.5% | 51.4% |
| Wallace Elementary School York | 427 | 64.2% | N/A |
| Memorial Elementary School Bloomsburg | 405 | 66.9% | 60.4% |
| Conrad Weiser West Elementary School Womelsdorf | 415 | 60.0% | 46.1% |
| Paradise Elementary School Paradise | 382 | 63.6% | 51.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 Hillside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #823 of 1,396 | #26 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #758 of 1,511 ▲ 70 | #23 of 34 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.4% | #871 of 1,511 ▲ 25 | #28 of 34 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 408 | #852 of 1,638 | #18 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,253 of 1,528 | #25 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.1% | #387 of 1,531 | #15 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #751 of 1,600 | #4 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.7% | #126 of 1,045 | #1 of 21 |
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
408
-143 (-26%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 408 | 27.3 | 14.9:1 | 67% (272) |
| 2023-24 | 504 | 35.2 | 14.3:1 | 54% (272) |
| 2022-23 | 534 | 36.3 | 14.7:1 | 59% (313) |
| 2020-21 | 551 | 40 | 13.8:1 | 47% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 572 | 37.9 | 15.1:1 | 44% (253) |
| 2015-16 | 579 | 35 | 16.5:1 | 45% (258) |
| 2010-11 | 434 | 27 | 16.1:1 | 31% (134) |
| 2000-01 | 465 | 25 | 18.6:1 | 10% (46) |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 26 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (572 to 408); teachers down 28% (37.9 to 27.3).
About Hillside Elementary School
The public elementary school Hillside Elementary School is located in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. It educates 408 students in kindergarten through 4.
A total of 15 schools make up West Shore SD, with 7,705 students enrolled.
At 62%, White students outnumber all other groups at Hillside Elementary School combined. The school is also 18% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 7% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 82%. The chance that two students picked at random at Hillside Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 57%.
Dividing enrollment by its 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 14.9:1. Among elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the typical ratio is 13.1:1. Eligible students account for 67% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. That is higher than the 41% average for public schools in Cumberland County.
Hillside Elementary School is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 44% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at Hillside Elementary School are 2.8 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (51.9% actual, 49.0% predicted).
Within Cumberland County, median household income is about $87,494, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Federal data list 57 public schools in Cumberland County, with a combined enrollment of about 33,044.
New Cumberland Middle School is located about 0.2 miles from Hillside Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Hillside Elementary School ranks 3rd on proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Hillside Elementary School saw enrollment fall 26% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 14.9 students per teacher, compared with 13.8 in 2020-21.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
268,323
Census ACS
Median income
$87,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
33,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Shore SD
- Cedar Cliff High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Red Land SHSHigh · 1,061 students
- Fairview Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 654 students
- Crossroads Middle SchoolMiddle · 541 students
- Old Trail Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 519 students
- Red Mill Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
Other schools in New Cumberland
- Fairview Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 654 students
- New Cumberland Middle SchoolMiddle · 389 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 238 students
Other Hillside Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 16 states are named Hillside Elementary. Hillside Elementary School is the 14th largest of the 25.
- Hillside Elementary SchoolBerwyn, PA · 425 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolMONTCLAIR, NJ · 684 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolFARMINGTON HILLS, MI · 682 students
- Hillside ElementaryAshburn, VA · 656 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolCLOSTER, NJ · 599 students
Nearby schools
- New Cumberland Middle School0.2 mi · 389
- Cedar Cliff High School1.2 mi · 1,333
- Highland Elementary School1.3 mi · 375
- Foose School1.8 mi · 522
- Sylvan Heights Science CS1.9 mi · 217
- Fairview Elementary School2.0 mi · 238
Frequently asked questions
About Hillside Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hillside Elementary School?
Hillside Elementary School enrolls approximately 408 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Hillside Elementary School serve?
Hillside Elementary School serves grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hillside Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hillside Elementary School is approximately 14.9:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hillside Elementary School?
At Hillside Elementary School, the student body is approximately 62% White, 18% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Hillside Elementary School in?
Hillside Elementary School is part of West Shore SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.