Enrollment
290
Elementary
DISTRICT 261 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICHESTER SD·NCES 420591005322
Hilltop Elementary School
401 Cherry Tree Road, Aston, PA 19014 · (610) 485-6746 · Delaware County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL290 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
9.1:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
161 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 6% smaller than its 4th grade class (52).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Chichester SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
56.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.8pp since 2023
Math
69.3%
PA avg 43.0% . -4.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.4% | 69.3% |
| 2023-24 | 60.2% | 74.1% |
% 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
68.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Hilltop Elementary School
Hilltop Elementary School's state test result (68.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilltop Elementary School this school | 290 | 55.5% | 68.0% |
| Boothwyn Elementary School Boothwyn | 269 | 53.5% | 57.2% |
| Parkside Elementary School Parkside | 252 | 54.0% | 60.5% |
| Young Scholars of Central PA CS State College | 321 | 49.5% | 54.5% |
| Kindergarten Academy Prospect Park | 245 | 46.1% | N/A |
| Tinicum School Essington | 325 | 56.3% | 45.5% |
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 Hilltop Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #354 of 1,396 | #23 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #285 of 1,511 ▼ 113 | #20 of 69 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #537 of 1,511 ▲ 80 | #24 of 69 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 290 | #1,284 of 1,638 | #60 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #24 of 1,528 | #6 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.4% | #198 of 1,531 | #16 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.5% | #897 of 1,600 | #37 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #728 of 1,045 | #25 of 45 |
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
290
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 508
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 290 | 32 | 9.1:1 | 56% (161) |
| 2023-24 | 306 | 36 | 8.5:1 | 53% (161) |
| 2022-23 | 317 | 32 | 9.9:1 | 100% (317) |
| 2020-21 | 291 | 30 | 9.7:1 | 53% (154) |
| 2017-18 | 316 | 28 | 11.3:1 | 36% (115) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 30 | 12.8:1 | 34% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 394 | 25 | 15.8:1 | 35% (138) |
| 2000-01 | 393 | 25 | 15.7:1 | 26% (103) |
| 1990-91 | 508 | 28 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hilltop Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (316 to 290); teachers up 14% (28 to 32).
About Hilltop Elementary School
Hilltop Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Aston, Pennsylvania. The school had 290 students in kindergarten through 4 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Pennsylvania) has about 443 students.
The district, Chichester SD, operates 6 schools serving 2,899 students.
White students make up a majority at Hilltop Elementary School, at 52%. Smaller groups are 24% Black, 10% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, and 5% Asian. For comparison, the population of Delaware County is roughly 63% White. Hilltop Elementary School's diversity index is 65%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at Hilltop Elementary School total 32 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 9.1:1. That is 4.0 students per teacher below the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 56%. For comparison, public schools in Delaware County average 58%.
allk12 grades Hilltop Elementary School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Hilltop Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 68.0% and a predicted 53.8%.
Census Bureau estimates for Delaware County show that the median household income is $89,546, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Hilltop Elementary School is one of 113 public schools in the county.
The closest public school to Hilltop Elementary School is Chichester SHS, about 0.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Hilltop Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Hilltop Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 290, close to the 291 recorded in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chichester SD
- Chichester SHSHigh · 981 students
- Chichester Middle SchoolMiddle · 873 students
- Boothwyn Elementary SchoolElementary · 269 students
- Linwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 249 students
- Marcus Hook Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
Other schools in Aston
- Sun Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Northley Middle SchoolMiddle · 748 students
- Pennell Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Aston Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
- Delaware County Technical High School - AstonHigh · 80 students
Other Hilltop Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named Hilltop Elementary. Hilltop Elementary School is the 15th largest of the 18.
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolARGYLE, TX · 788 students
- HILLTOP ELEMENTARYINVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN · 626 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolBonaire, GA · 590 students
- Hilltop ElementaryLYNNWOOD, WA · 562 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolAZLE, TX · 537 students
Nearby schools
- Chichester SHS0.8 mi · 981
- Pennell Elementary School0.9 mi · 415
- Sun Valley High School1.2 mi · 1,042
- Chichester Middle School1.2 mi · 873
- Northley Middle School1.4 mi · 748
- Aston Elementary School1.5 mi · 405
Frequently asked questions
About Hilltop Elementary SchoolHow large is Hilltop Elementary School?
Hilltop Elementary School enrolls approximately 290 students in grades KG-04.
Is Hilltop Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hilltop Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hilltop Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hilltop Elementary School is approximately 9.1:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hilltop Elementary School?
At Hilltop Elementary School, the student body is approximately 52% White, 9% Hispanic, 24% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Hilltop Elementary School public or private?
Hilltop Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chichester SD.
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