Hillside Elementary

Hillside Elementary School is a public primary school located in East Avenue, Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1890, Hillside School offers pre-kindergarten through 5th grade education following a single track school calendar. The school, with approximately 488 students enrolled, is part of Local District 5 of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Hillside aims to provide students with "high quality standards-based instruction that will prepare them to be academically advanced proactive citizens concerned about the direction of society, with the knowledge and skills to affect change." Hillside students are also nicknamed "Hawks."

Rankings

From the 2006 California Academic Performance Index (API) Base report, the school has an API score of 664, which corresponds to a state rank of 2 (1 is the worst, 10 is the best. The API Score is a number between 200 and 1000 that reflects a school’s or school district’s performance on statewide student assessments administered in 2006).

School Statistics

100% of Hillside's teachers have full teaching credentials. The Hillside faculty, which has 4% first year teachers, have an average of 8 years in teaching experience, and 8 average years teaching in the district...the school's class size is 19 for kindergarten, 20 for grade 1, 21 for grade 2, 19 for grade 3, 29 for grade 4, and 26 for grade 5.

The school's student staff ratios are: 54 Students per paraprofessional staff, 163 Students per office/clerical staff, and 98 Students per other classified staff...The bulk of Hillside's enrollees (87%) are of Hispanic or Latino descent, with the rest being Asians (12%), African American (1%), White ( <1% ), and American Indian or Alaskan ( <1% ).