Hillcrest Elementary

Set in Oak Harbor, Washington, Hillcrest Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, part of Oak Harbor School District. It instructs 460 students across grades K through 4. That puts it 21% above the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Within Oak Harbor School District, which oversees 11 schools and 5,635 students, Hillcrest Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Hillcrest Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hillcrest Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Hillcrest Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 34% of students at Hillcrest Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hillcrest Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 57.3%; Hillcrest Elementary posts 71.6%, +14.3 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Island County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,551 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Island County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,561 students), of which Hillcrest Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is iGrad Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillcrest Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hillcrest Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 566 students in 2018 compared to 460 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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