# HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001775`
- **School name**: HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKE WALES, FL 33853
- **Address**: 1051 STATE ROAD 60 E
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 27.89496, -81.56761
- **Phone**: (863)678-4216

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 667
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: B

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.4% (139 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 13.4% (89 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 25.0%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 19.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 49.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 59.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.6% — 57 students
- **English Learners**: 8.4% — 56 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $7,910
- **Federal share**: $722
- **State + local share**: $7,188
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,489,537
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 43.8%
- **Local share**: 35.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,033,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $49,219
- **Poverty rate**: 13.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,345
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.0 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.23 miles (RIDGE FERTILIZER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE WALES, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH** — 1.4 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 1.65%)
- **VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY** — 1.6 mi away, 0.96% (this school: 1.65%)
- **BOK ACADEMY** — 5.1 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 1.65%)
- **DUNDEE RIDGE MIDDLE ACADEMY** — 8.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.65%)
- **FROSTPROOF BEN HILL GRIFFIN JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 9.2 mi away, 1.4% (this school: 1.65%)

### ela proficiency
- **LAKE WALES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 59% (this school: 56%)
- **DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY** — 5.0 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 56%)
- **BOK ACADEMY** — 5.1 mi away, 57% (this school: 56%)
- **SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY** — 6.6 mi away, 57% (this school: 56%)
- **CHAIN OF LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.0 mi away, 59% (this school: 56%)

### math proficiency
- **FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY** — 12.6 mi away, 81% (this school: 70%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/hillcrest-elementary-school-lake-wales/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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