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Enrollment
470
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000812
Hillside School
4283 S 6000 W, WEST VALLEY CITY, UT 84128 · (385) 646-4870 · Salt Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of Utah public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 Utah public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.9:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
215 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 33%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 33 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 70 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 20% smaller than its 6th grade class (70).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 47% · 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
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
18.9%
UT avg 41.4% . -8.3pp since 2023
Math
18.3%
UT avg 41.8% . -6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.9% | 18.3% |
| 2023-24 | 27.2% | 24.8% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. 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
24.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.4%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Utah 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 Utah'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 Hillside School
Hillside School's state test result (24.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside School this school | 470 | 45.7% | 24.7% |
| Silver Hills School KEARNS | 475 | 43.6% | 31.6% |
| Pacific Heritage Academy SALT LAKE CITY | 327 | 41.9% | 25.7% |
| Robert Frost School WEST VALLEY CITY | 304 | 47.0% | 41.4% |
| Valley Crest School WEST VALLEY CITY | 455 | 37.4% | N/A |
| Beehive School KEARNS | 489 | 45.2% | 23.3% |
Matched among Utah 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 Hillside School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.7% | #508 of 562 | #132 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #537 of 578 ▼ 44 | #158 of 180 ▼ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #540 of 578 ▼ 38 | #149 of 180 ▼ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 470 | #362 of 613 | #106 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.9:1 | #439 of 556 | #146 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #19 of 559 | #18 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.7% | #166 of 582 | #56 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.5% | #106 of 388 | #48 of 133 |
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
470
-75 (-14%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 967
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 | 470 | 20.5 | 22.9:1 | 46% (215) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 20 | 22.7:1 | 60% (273) |
| 2022-23 | 499 | 21.5 | 23.2:1 | 63% (316) |
| 2020-21 | 545 | N/A | N/A | 59% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 631 | N/A | N/A | 64% (403) |
| 2015-16 | 644 | N/A | N/A | 63% (406) |
| 2010-11 | 743 | 27 | 27.5:1 | 53% (393) |
| 2000-01 | 749 | 36 | 20.8:1 | 35% (260) |
| 1990-91 | 967 | 41 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillside School.
About Hillside School
Hillside School is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah. It had 470 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 6.
Granite District serves 59,404 students across 85 schools.
At Hillside School, 51% of students are Hispanic. The school is also 29% White, 8% Pacific Islander, 7% Asian, and 3% Black. That is higher than the 21% Hispanic share among all Salt Lake County residents. The diversity index for Hillside School is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Hillside School comes to 20.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 22.9:1. Elementary schools in Utah average 21.8:1, 1.1 fewer students per teacher than here. Hillside School counts 46% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 34% average among public schools in Salt Lake County.
On the allk12 Grade, Hillside School lands at D, ahead of 7% of Utah public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Hillside School would be expected to post about 37.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 24.7%.
For Salt Lake County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $97,494, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 325 public schools and about 209,757 students.
Hunter High is about 0.4 miles from Hillside School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Hillside School is 6th among 9 schools close by.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 545 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 470 by 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Granite District
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Cyprus HighHigh · 2,762 students
- Taylorsville HighHigh · 2,685 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- Kearns HighHigh · 2,313 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
Other schools in WEST VALLEY CITY
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated SchoolCombined · 1,556 students
- Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12Combined · 777 students
- John F. Kennedy Jr HighMiddle · 772 students
- West Valley SchoolElementary · 764 students
Other Hillside schools
One other US public school is named Hillside. Hillside School is the largest of the 2.
- HILLSIDE SCHOOLSCHENECTADY, NY · 383 students
Nearby schools
- Hunter High0.4 mi · 2,480
- Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-120.7 mi · 777
- Ascent Academies of Utah - West Valley0.7 mi · 425
- Hunter Jr High0.8 mi · 667
- Hunter School0.8 mi · 480
- Whittier School1.2 mi · 492
Frequently asked questions
About Hillside SchoolHow large is Hillside School?
Hillside School enrolls approximately 470 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Hillside School serve?
Hillside School serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Hillside School?
Approximately 22.9:1 students per teacher at Hillside School.
What is the student diversity at Hillside School?
Student demographics at Hillside School are roughly 29% White, 51% Hispanic, 3% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Hillside School?
Hillside School is overseen by Granite District in Salt Lake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.