# HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010001965`
- **School name**: HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: JAMAICA, NY 11432
- **Address**: 160-05 HIGHLAND AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 (LEAID `3600100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.70940, -73.80230
- **Phone**: (718)658-5407
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14706373 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcrest_High_School_(Queens)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,298
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 163
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Grad Rate: 2
  - HS ELP: 3
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - EM Growth: s
  - EM Core Performance: s
  - EM Weight Performance: s
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Attendance: s
  - EM ELP: s
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 85.0% (cohort of 610)
- **2021**: 75.0% (cohort of 822)
- **2019**: 78.0% (cohort of 798)
- **2018**: 71.0% (cohort of 836)
- **2017**: 73.0% (cohort of 848)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 58.5% (1,683 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (109 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.2% (97 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 39.8% (929 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 4.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 33.8%
- **Black/African American**: 30.2%
- **Asian**: 26.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 394 students
- **English Learners**: 23.4% — 547 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 267 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 63 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,717
- **Federal share**: $4,015
- **State + local share**: $21,702
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,330
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,765
- **Poverty rate**: 12.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,149
- **Foreign-born residents**: 64.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.3 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.90 miles (97 04 SUTPHIN BLVD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL-QUEENS** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.67%)
- **GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL II** — 0.4 mi away, 2.71% (this school: 4.67%)
- **QUEENS COLLEGIATE - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 2.92% (this school: 4.67%)
- **HILLSIDE ARTS & LETTERS ACADEMY** — 0.4 mi away, 0.93% (this school: 4.67%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP** — 0.4 mi away, 1.41% (this school: 4.67%)

### graduation rate
- **HILLSIDE ARTS & LETTERS ACADEMY** — 0.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 85%)
- **JAMAICA GATEWAY TO THE SCIENCES** — 0.4 mi away, 88% (this school: 85%)
- **THOMAS A EDISON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 94% (this school: 85%)
- **YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY** — 1.2 mi away, 99% (this school: 85%)
- **ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 87% (this school: 85%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/hillcrest-high-school-jamaica/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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