Hillside Middle

Hillside Middle is a tight-knit intermediate school in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, one of the schools within Salt Lake District. The school hosts 485 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 831 students per school, that is 42% below typical.

Salt Lake District runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 20,086 students. Hillside Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Hillside Middle records that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.7:1, putting Hillside Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Hillside Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.2%; this one delivers 58.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate median household income runs about $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Hillside Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Beacon Heights School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillside Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hillside Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 68.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 583 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025.

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