Hillside El Sch

Hillside El Sch operates as an average-sized primary school in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, overseen by West Shore SD. Current enrollment sits at 408 students spanning grades K through 4.

West Shore SD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,705 students; Hillside El Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hillside El Sch reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hillside El Sch logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Hillside El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hillside El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of +2.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cumberland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Cumberland County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), Hillside El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is New Cumberland MS, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hillside El Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 62% across the same window.

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