Hillcrest Academy-North
SCOTCH PLAINS · NJ · Union County Educational Services Commission · Public
📄 Shareable scorecard →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 38% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Hillcrest Academy-North compares for families
What families should know about Hillcrest Academy-North.
- ▸ LocallyNJ students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+12 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, First Children School, Westfield Senior High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 38% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 74 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School SCOTCH PLAINS |
Public | 0.5 | 1,562 | +1.8% |
| First Children School Fanwood |
Private | 1.0 | 85 | +26.9% |
| Westfield Senior High School Westfield |
Public | 1.5 | 1,776 | -3.9% |
| College Achieve Central Charter School Plainfield |
Public · charter | 2.2 | 506 | +17.7% |
| Union Catholic Regional High School Scotch Plains |
Private | 2.2 | 588 | -27.0% |
| Governor Livingston High School BERKELEY HEIGHTS |
Public | 2.3 | 849 | -9.8% |
| UNION REGIONAL SCHOOL Scotch Plains |
Public | 2.4 | 7 | — |
| Kohler Academy Mountainside |
Private | 2.4 | 34 | — |