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Hills Elementary School

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Hills Elementary School is a public elementary school located in Hills, Iowa, serving grades PK-6 with a student population of 141. The school is part of the Iowa City Community School District, which is ranked 221 out of 309 districts in Iowa and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Hills Elementary consistently underperforms the Iowa City Community School District and the state of Iowa in both English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency across all grade levels. For example, in 2023-2024, the 6th-grade ELA proficiency rate at Hills Elementary was 52%, compared to 73.1% for the district and 74.5% for the state. The school also has a very high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, ranging from 67.04% to 75.89% over the past three school years, significantly higher than the surrounding schools. Despite the higher spending per student at Hills Elementary, the school's academic performance remains poor compared to the surrounding schools, such as Lone Tree Elementary School, Ernest Horn Elementary School, and Weber Elementary.

Hills Elementary has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Iowa elementary schools, with a ranking between 461 and 558 out of 567 to 616 schools over the past 10 school years, suggesting that the school is struggling to meet the academic needs of its students. The school's consistent underperformance and the disparities between its metrics and those of the surrounding schools suggest the need for a comprehensive review and implementation of targeted interventions to improve student outcomes.

151
Students ?
11.7
Student/teacher ratio ?
78.8%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 301 Main St
       Hills, IA  52235

(319) 688-1105

District: Iowa City Community School District


Students who attend Hills Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Northwest Middle School
High:    West Senior High School
Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
50.3%
White:
35.1%
African American:
9.3%
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At a glance
▼ Ranking trend: Declining — 9th percentile in 2014 → 4th in 2024
Strengths
✓Small classes — about 12 students per teacher
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Iowa average (41% vs 70% meeting standards)
!Ranking has slipped — down 5 percentile points since 2014
!Mathematics scores 36 pts below the Iowa average
Students meeting standards (2023-2024) ?
This school41%
District avg68%
Iowa avg70%
Not ranked this year
Hills Elementary School did not have enough recent test-score data to be ranked. Check the trend below for past years.
241st of 313Iowa City Community School District among Iowa districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIowa percentileRating
20244.9536 of 5573.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202315.2504 of 56510.8%★☆☆☆☆
202224.9470 of 57418.1%★☆☆☆☆
202113.8511 of 5679.9%★☆☆☆☆
201931.6461 of 60323.5%★☆☆☆☆
20187.8527 of 5677.1%☆☆☆☆☆
20175.1543 of 5745.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20169.1558 of 5996.8%☆☆☆☆☆
201528.2498 of 61619.2%★☆☆☆☆
201414.7546 of 6039.5%☆☆☆☆☆
201315.6572 of 6248.3%☆☆☆☆☆
201222.3556 of 62611.2%★☆☆☆☆
By subject vs Iowa (2023-2024) ?
English Language Arts45%-25 vs state
Science44%-16 vs state
Mathematics37%-36 vs state

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Students at Hills Elementary School are 50% Hispanic, 35% White, 9% African American, 5% Two or more races.

In the 2023-24 school year, 151 students attended Hills Elementary School.


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Iowa Department of Education.

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