Hillside School

Hillside School operates as an average-sized elementary campus in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, operated by Granite District. Current enrollment sits at 470 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Granite District runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 59,404 students. Hillside School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hillside School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 29% White, 8% Pacific Islander, 7% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Salt Lake County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Hillside School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hillside School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -12.8 points.

In the area at large, Salt Lake County reports that 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%. Hillside School is one of 325 public schools in Salt Lake County (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students).

Hunter High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hillside School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 26.9%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Hillside School's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 631 (now 470). The White share of enrollment shrank from 46% to 29% over that span.

Inside the community feed, members of the Hillside School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.