Hillcrest High School
Country Club Hills · IL · Bremen CHSD 228 · Public
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Delta Academy and Achieve → Homewood-Flossmoor High School → Tinley Park High School → Bremen High School → Rich Township High School → Oak Forest High School → Regl Inst Scholastic Excellence → South Cook Truancy Program →📋 At a glance
- 📚 12 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 17 physics · 15 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 82th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 79th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Hillcrest High School compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 18% nationally with 12 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyIL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Delta Academy and Achieve, Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Tinley Park High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
82th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2179th percentile 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.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -5.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,100 students:
≈ 267 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $23,555 per student in district revenue, the 267 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $6,289,185/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Academy and Achieve Oak Forest |
Public | 1.4 | — | — |
| Homewood-Flossmoor High School Flossmoor |
Public | 2.2 | 2,707 | -2.9% |
| Tinley Park High School Tinley Park |
Public | 2.8 | 1,042 | -4.7% |
| Bremen High School Midlothian |
Public | 2.9 | 1,414 | -1.6% |
| Rich Township High School Olympia Fields |
Public | 3.5 | 2,433 | -9.4% |
| Oak Forest High School Oak Forest |
Public | 3.6 | 1,329 | -2.9% |
| Regl Inst Scholastic Excellence Chicago Heights |
Public | 4.5 | — | — |
| South Cook Truancy Program Chicago Hts |
Public | 4.5 | — | — |