Public school / High
Hillcrest High School
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010339000052
- District
- Tuscaloosa County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Hillcrest High School is a public high school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, run by Tuscaloosa County. It enrols 1,356 students — the 4623rd largest of 1,528 public schools in Alabama.
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
1,356
Teachers
71.0
Students per teacher
19.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
64.6%
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 Tuscaloosa County
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.
- 1Tuscaloosa County High School1,545 students
- 2Hillcrest High School1,356 students
- 3Brookwood High School1,078 students
- 4Echols Middle School878 students
- 5Brookwood Middle School796 students
- 6Lake View Elementary School769 students
- 7Walker Elementary School760 students
- 8Northport Elementary School607 students
- Enrollment+165.4%
- Teachers+163.0%
- Students per teacher+7.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−1.8%
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