Enrollment
239
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAUKESHA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551578002014
Hillcrest Elementary
2200 Davidson Rd, Waukesha, WI 53186 · (262) 970-1805 · Waukesha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL239 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 38.0:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
70 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 | 13 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 34 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 54% · 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
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
72.6%
WI avg 53.1% . +1.3pp since 2023
Math
78.3%
WI avg 54.8% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.6% | 78.3% |
| 2023-24 | 71.3% | 69.7% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.7%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 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 Hillcrest Elementary
Hillcrest Elementary's state test result (73.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillcrest Elementary this school | 239 | 29.3% | 73.4% |
| College Park Elementary Greendale | 273 | 33.7% | 72.5% |
| Ben Franklin Elementary Franklin | 308 | 26.0% | 60.5% |
| Maine Elementary Wausau | 229 | 35.8% | 53.2% |
| McDill Elementary Stevens Point | 360 | 32.5% | 61.7% |
| Davey Elementary Eau Claire | 332 | 32.2% | 57.1% |
Matched among Wisconsin 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 Hillcrest Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #130 of 982 | #36 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.3% | #82 of 992 ▲ 161 | #24 of 56 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #109 of 992 ▲ 29 | #31 of 56 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 239 | #807 of 1,157 | #58 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #318 of 901 | #10 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #323 of 901 | #18 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.3% | #745 of 1,064 | #13 of 63 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.8% | #103 of 664 | #7 of 27 |
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
239
-76 (-24%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 258
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 239 | 19.4 | 12.3:1 | 29% (70) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 20.9 | 13.2:1 | 23% (63) |
| 2022-23 | 289 | 19.9 | 14.5:1 | 25% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 315 | 19 | 16.6:1 | 17% (55) |
| 2017-18 | 331 | 21.7 | 15.3:1 | 14% (45) |
| 2015-16 | 311 | 20 | 15.6:1 | 22% (67) |
| 2010-11 | 416 | 23 | 18.1:1 | 17% (72) |
| 2000-01 | 382 | 20 | 19.1:1 | 13% (50) |
| 1990-91 | 258 | 22 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hillcrest Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (331 to 239); teachers down 11% (21.7 to 19.4).
About Hillcrest Elementary
Hillcrest Elementary operates as a small elementary school in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Total enrollment is 239 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have about 323 students on average; enrollment here is 26% lower.
Hillcrest Elementary is in Waukesha School District, a district with 10,922 students across 27 schools.
More than half of the students at Hillcrest Elementary are White (69%). The rest of enrollment is 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 8% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Waukesha County's population at about 87%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Hillcrest Elementary scores 49%.
Hillcrest Elementary has 19.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 12.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 14.7:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 29% at Hillcrest Elementary. That is 12 points above the 17% average for public schools in Waukesha County.
Hillcrest Elementary holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 91% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Hillcrest Elementary scores 13.7 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 73.4% actual versus 59.7% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Waukesha County show median household income comes to about $106,076, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. There are 113 public schools in the county, enrolling about 60,032, Hillcrest Elementary among them.
Hillcrest Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Horning Middle, about 1.0 miles away. Within five miles of Hillcrest Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Hillcrest Elementary is ahead of the 48.2% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 6.
The NCES locale for Hillcrest Elementary is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 315 to 239, a 24% decline. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.3:1) than in 2020-21 (16.6:1).
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Waukesha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
411,762
Census ACS
Median income
$106,076
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
60,032 students
Quick facts
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Other Hillcrest Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 24 states are named Hillcrest Elementary. Hillcrest Elementary is the 41st largest of the 42.
- Hillcrest ElementaryOneida, WI · 434 students
- Hillcrest ElementaryChippewa Falls, WI · 344 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolLake Stevens, WA · 842 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolEnterprise, AL · 753 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolNEDERLAND, TX · 717 students
Nearby schools
- Horning Middle1.0 mi · 534
- Banting Elementary1.0 mi · 486
- Hadfield Elementary1.9 mi · 338
- Waukesha East Alternative School2.0 mi · 74
- White Rock Campus2.0 mi · 167
- White Rock School2.0 mi · 286
Frequently asked questions
About Hillcrest ElementaryHow many students attend Hillcrest Elementary?
Hillcrest Elementary enrolls approximately 239 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hillcrest Elementary serve?
Hillcrest Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Hillcrest Elementary?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at Hillcrest Elementary.
How diverse is Hillcrest Elementary?
Hillcrest Elementary reports a student body of 69% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black, 10% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Hillcrest Elementary?
Hillcrest Elementary is overseen by Waukesha School District in Waukesha County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.