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Enrollment
562
Elementary
DISTRICT 462 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530240000342
Hilltop Elementary
20425 DAMSON ROAD, LYNNWOOD, WA 98036 · (425) 431-7604 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL562 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 57% of Washington public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
110 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 51%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 55 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 56% larger than its 6th grade class (55).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 68% · 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
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
66.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.6pp since 2014
Math
62.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -1.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.9% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.1% | 62.9% |
| 2022-23 | 67.9% | 60.6% |
| 2021-22 | 67.5% | 57.2% |
| 2018-19 | 76.4% | 70.5% |
| 2017-18 | 75.1% | 68.6% |
| 2016-17 | 71.0% | 64.8% |
| 2015-16 | 72.0% | 68.8% |
| 2014-15 | 64.3% | 63.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. 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
63.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for Washington 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 Washington'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 Hilltop Elementary
Hilltop Elementary's state test result (63.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilltop Elementary this school | 562 | 19.6% | 63.8% |
| Hazelwood Elementary School Newcastle | 478 | 20.3% | 72.6% |
| Sunset Elementary BELLEVUE | 499 | 19.2% | 68.4% |
| Silver Firs Elementary Everett | 538 | 22.1% | 79.8% |
| Lockwood Elementary Bothell | 525 | 16.6% | 77.8% |
| Shelton View Elementary Bothell | 513 | 16.6% | 74.5% |
Matched among Washington 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 Hilltop Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.8% | #209 of 936 | #26 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #229 of 1,103 ▼ 15 | #26 of 106 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #201 of 1,102 ▲ 22 | #24 of 106 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.1pp | #427 of 928 | #52 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 562 | #150 of 1,268 | #30 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #726 of 1,085 | #70 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #236 of 1,088 | #28 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.6% | #1,039 of 1,169 | #100 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.3% | #144 of 257 | #22 of 37 |
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
562
+49 (+10%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 530
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 562 | 33.8 | 16.6:1 | 20% (110) |
| 2023-24 | 581 | 36.2 | 16.1:1 | 19% (111) |
| 2022-23 | 555 | 33.9 | 16.4:1 | 18% (98) |
| 2020-21 | 513 | 32 | 16.0:1 | 16% (83) |
| 2017-18 | 524 | 27 | 19.4:1 | 15% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 550 | 28 | 19.6:1 | 20% (109) |
| 2010-11 | 550 | 25 | 22.0:1 | 14% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 531 | 25 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 530 | 25 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hilltop Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (524 to 562); teachers up 25% (27 to 33.8).
About Hilltop Elementary
Hilltop Elementary is a public elementary school run by Edmonds School District in LYNNWOOD, Washington. It is open to students in kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 562 students. That is 48% larger than the average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.
The district, Edmonds School District, operates 37 schools serving 20,955 students.
The student body at Hilltop Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 41%. Enrollment also includes 28% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 4% Black. The school's White share is 23 points below the 64% share among Snohomish County residents. A diversity index of 72% means there is a 72% chance two randomly chosen students at Hilltop Elementary are from different groups.
Staffing at Hilltop Elementary comes to 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 17.3:1. On the income side, 20% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Snohomish County average 41%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Hilltop Elementary outscored 57%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Hilltop Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 63.8%, compared with a predicted 67.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Snohomish County, median household income comes to about $111,246, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Snohomish County has 227 public schools with about 118,688 students, including Hilltop Elementary.
Early Childhood Center sits about 0.9 miles from Hilltop Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Hilltop Elementary comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 513 to 562, a 10% rise.
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Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edmonds School District
- Edmonds Woodway High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Mountlake Terrace High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Lynnwood High SchoolHigh · 1,335 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
Other schools in LYNNWOOD
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Spruce ElementaryElementary · 632 students
- Lake Stickney Elementary SchoolElementary · 628 students
- Lynnwood ElementaryElementary · 578 students
Other Hilltop Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named Hilltop Elementary. Hilltop Elementary is the 4th largest of the 18.
- Hilltop ElementarySeattle, WA · 519 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolIlwaco, WA · 188 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolARGYLE, TX · 788 students
- HILLTOP ELEMENTARYINVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN · 626 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolBonaire, GA · 590 students
Nearby schools
- Early Childhood Center0.9 mi · 397
- Frank Love Elementary1.2 mi · 492
- Crystal Springs Elementary1.3 mi · 500
- Oak Heights Elementary1.4 mi · 526
- Lynnwood High School1.5 mi · 1,335
- Hazelwood Elementary1.6 mi · 419
Frequently asked questions
About Hilltop ElementaryHow many students attend Hilltop Elementary?
Hilltop Elementary enrolls approximately 562 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Hilltop Elementary serve?
Hilltop Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Hilltop Elementary?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at Hilltop Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Hilltop Elementary?
Student demographics at Hilltop Elementary are roughly 41% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 28% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Hilltop Elementary public or private?
Hilltop Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Edmonds School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.