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Public school / Primary

Hillcrest Elementary

Morganton, North Carolina

NCES ID
370048000183
District
Burke County Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Hillcrest Elementary is a public primary school in Morganton, North Carolina, run by Burke County Schools. It enrols 284 students — the 67841st largest of 2,773 public schools in North Carolina.

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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

284students

67841st nationally, tied with 126

Teachers

20.0FTE

64854th nationally, tied with 2,293

Students per teacher

14.2students

39714th nationally, tied with 972

Free or reduced-price lunch

94.4%percent

9225th nationally, tied with 68

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.

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Within Burke County Schools

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Freedom High1,414 students
  2. 2East Burke High879 students
  3. 3Robert L. Patton High School752 students
  4. 4Jimmy C Draughn High School682 students
  5. 5Mountain View Elementary677 students
  6. 6East Burke Middle645 students
  7. 7Valdese Elementary521 students
  8. 8Table Rock Middle502 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: North Carolina median across 2,773 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−44.3%
  • Teachers−41.2%
  • Students per teacher−6.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+38.0%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.