Hillcrest Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Hillcrest Elementary serves 344 students from grades K through 5, part of Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District.

Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,574 students. Hillcrest Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hillcrest Elementary reports that nearly all students (89%) are White; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Hillcrest Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hillcrest Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Chippewa County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,680 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Chippewa County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,353 students), Hillcrest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Chippewa Falls High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillcrest Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hillcrest Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillcrest Elementary has contracted 18%, going from 418 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 94% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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