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Hillsdale School
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RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hillsdale School
As a moderately sized primary school in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, Hillsdale School enrolls 548 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by Granite District.
Granite District comprises 85 schools with combined enrollment of 59,404 students; Hillsdale School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Hillsdale School logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 14% White, 8% Pacific Islander, 3% Asian, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Hillsdale School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hillsdale School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 19.5%, a residual of -14.3 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Hillsdale School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is West Lake Jr High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillsdale School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hillsdale School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.4%.
Hillsdale School operates from a suburban location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillsdale School has fell 37%, going from 870 students in 2018 to 548 in 2025.
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