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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Hillcrest Elementary School

Turners Falls, Massachusetts

NCES ID
250527002816
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Hillcrest Elementary School is a public primary school in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, run by Gill-Montague. It enrols 146 students — the 83180th largest of 1,862 public schools in Massachusetts.

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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

146students

83180th nationally, tied with 83

Teachers

15.0FTE

75519th nationally, tied with 1,812

Students per teacher

9.7students

8053rd nationally, tied with 305

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.

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Within Gill-Montague

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. 1Sheffield Elementary School211 students
  2. 2Great Falls Middle207 students
  3. 3Turners Fall High194 students
  4. 4Hillcrest Elementary School146 students
  5. 5Gill Elementary105 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Massachusetts median across 1,862 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−67.8%
  • Teachers−57.1%
  • Students per teacher−18.5%
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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.