1
Enrollment
519
Elementary
DISTRICT 459 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530354000532
Hilltop Elementary
12250 24th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98168 · (206) 631-4000 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL519 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
395 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 91 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 18% larger than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
16.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -16.2pp since 2014
Math
22.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -11.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 16 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.9% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 15.2% | 13.6% |
| 2022-23 | 17.4% | 17.4% |
| 2021-22 | 18.6% | 11.4% |
| 2018-19 | 35.9% | 25.5% |
| 2017-18 | 43.8% | 38.7% |
| 2016-17 | 42.6% | 38.6% |
| 2015-16 | 42.9% | 38.4% |
| 2014-15 | 33.1% | 34.1% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 29% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 (17.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilltop Elementary this school | 519 | 76.1% | 17.5% |
| Horizon Elementary Everett | 550 | 74.5% | 23.3% |
| Gildo Rey Elementary School AUBURN | 416 | 72.6% | 36.3% |
| Pioneer Elementary School AUBURN | 621 | 72.0% | 29.8% |
| Harvard Elementary Tacoma | 445 | 75.7% | 27.3% |
| Hazel Valley Elementary Burien | 469 | 67.0% | 24.2% |
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 King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.5% | #915 of 936 | #275 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #1,005 of 1,103 ▲ 73 | #266 of 281 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #1,081 of 1,102 ▲ 2 | #277 of 280 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.7pp | #276 of 928 | #71 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 519 | #242 of 1,268 | #62 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #963 of 1,085 | #247 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.7% | #708 of 1,088 | #250 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.1% | #159 of 1,169 | #23 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #364 of 778 | #116 of 220 |
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
519
+26 (+5%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 419
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 19.0:1
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 | 519 | 29 | 17.9:1 | 76% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 531 | 25.6 | 20.8:1 | 77% (408) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 25.4 | 18.8:1 | 75% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 493 | 26 | 19.0:1 | 72% (356) |
| 2017-18 | 629 | 31.3 | 20.1:1 | 81% (511) |
| 2015-16 | 628 | 33 | 19.0:1 | 84% (529) |
| 2010-11 | 600 | 34 | 17.6:1 | 71% (424) |
| 2000-01 | 667 | 34 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 419 | 17 | 24.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hilltop Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (629 to 519); teachers down 7% (31.3 to 29).
About Hilltop Elementary
Hilltop Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Seattle, Washington. Total enrollment is 519 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Washington enroll about 380 students on average.
Within Highline School District, Hilltop Elementary is one of 36 schools. The district enrolls 18,072 students.
The student body at Hilltop Elementary is 66% Hispanic. The school is also 15% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% White, and 6% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 11%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.
Hilltop Elementary reports a ratio of 17.9 students per teacher, from 29 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Hilltop Elementary, 76% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 38% average for public schools in King County.
Hilltop Elementary scores 11.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 17.5% actual versus 29.1% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for King County show that median household income comes to about $124,746, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. King County counts 544 public schools with about 278,492 students.
Hilltop Elementary's nearest public school is Cascade View Elementary (about 0.9 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hilltop Elementary. Hilltop Elementary places 6th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Hilltop Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 519, from 493 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 19.0:1 to 17.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The discussion board for Hilltop Elementary is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Highline School District
- Mount Rainier High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Evergreen High SchoolHigh · 1,080 students
- Glacier Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 671 students
- Tyee High SchoolHigh · 644 students
Other schools in Seattle
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other Hilltop Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named Hilltop Elementary. Hilltop Elementary is the 8th largest of the 18.
- Hilltop ElementaryLYNNWOOD, WA · 562 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
- Cascade View Elementary0.9 mi · 481
- Innovation Heights Academy0.9 mi · 142
- Glacier Middle School1.0 mi · 803
- Cedarhurst Elementary1.3 mi · 399
- Beverly Park Elem at Glendale1.4 mi · 411
- Highline Public Schools Virtual Academy1.5 mi · 208
Frequently asked questions
About Hilltop ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Hilltop Elementary?
Hilltop Elementary enrolls approximately 519 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hilltop Elementary serve?
Hilltop Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Hilltop Elementary?
Approximately 17.9:1 students per teacher at Hilltop Elementary.
How diverse is Hilltop Elementary?
Hilltop Elementary reports a student body of 6% White, 66% Hispanic, 6% Black, 15% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Hilltop Elementary public or private?
Hilltop Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Highline School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.