Public school / Primary
Hillcrest Elementary - 04
Brookings, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 460852000085
- District
- Brookings School District 05-1
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Hillcrest Elementary - 04 is a public primary school in Brookings, South Dakota, run by Brookings School District 05-1. It enrols 305 students — the 64935th largest of 763 public schools in South Dakota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
305
Teachers
20.0
Students per teacher
15.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
29.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Brookings School District 05-1
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Brookings High School - 011,050 students
- 2George S. Mickelson Middle School - 02751 students
- 3Camelot Intermediate - 06529 students
- 4Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07473 students
- 5Medary Elementary - 05323 students
- 6Hillcrest Elementary - 04305 students
- Enrollment+112.5%
- Teachers+122.2%
- Students per teacher+15.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+10.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory