Hilton Elementary School

Set in Zillah, Washington, Hilton Elementary School is a small primary school, operated by Zillah School District. It caters to 305 students across grades pre-K through 2.

Zillah School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,330 students; Hilton Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Hilton Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 32% White, 4% Native American, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Hilton Elementary School records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Yakima County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Yakima County) reports that median household income runs about $70,656, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Hilton Elementary School is one of 119 public schools in Yakima County (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students).

Zillah Intermediate 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 Hilton Elementary School.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025.

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