Hilltop Heritage Middle School

Hilltop Heritage Middle School is a middle school of compact scale in Tacoma, Washington, run under Tacoma School District, caters to 447 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so Hilltop Heritage Middle School sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Tacoma School District comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 28,900 students; Hilltop Heritage Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Hilltop Heritage Middle School records that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 21% Hispanic, 20% multiracial, 14% Black, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.9:1, putting Hilltop Heritage Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hilltop Heritage Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Pierce County) logs that median household income runs about $99,564, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Hilltop Heritage Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Bryant Montessori School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hilltop Heritage Middle School. On composite proficiency, Hilltop Heritage Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

Hilltop Heritage Middle School operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Hilltop Heritage Middle School's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 547 (now 447). Black enrollment moved from 27% to 14% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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