# Hilltop Middle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063864006483`
- **School name**: Hilltop Middle
- **Location**: Chula Vista, CA 91910
- **Address**: 44 East J St.
- **District**: Sweetwater Union High (LEAID `0638640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.63091, -117.06084
- **Phone**: (619)498-2700
- **Website**: https://htm.sweetwaterschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 866
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Yellow
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.2% proficient — 813 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.7% (183 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.7% (107 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (6 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 53.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.9% — 167 students
- **English Learners**: 17.2% — 152 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 81 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 29 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,898,228
- **Federal share**: $853,921
- **State + local share**: $9,044,307
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 885
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,289,767
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 58.4%
- **Local share**: 32.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,297,535

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $134,358
- **Poverty rate**: 6.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.1%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,010
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 49.4 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.17 miles (DAVIES PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SWEETWATER AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.9444 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hilltop Senior High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Cook (Hazel Goes) Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 17.3% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Halecrest Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 13.1% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Kellogg (Karl H.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 16.8% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Rice (Lilian J.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 17.8% (this school: 19.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Hilltop Drive Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 41.8% (this school: 39.6%)
- **Hilltop Senior High** — 0.4 mi away, 61.45% (this school: 39.6%)
- **Cook (Hazel Goes) Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 43.9% (this school: 39.6%)
- **Halecrest Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 60.45% (this school: 39.6%)
- **Kellogg (Karl H.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 43.6% (this school: 39.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Halecrest Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Kellogg (Karl H.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Rice (Lilian J.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Clear View** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rosebank Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/hilltop-middle-chula-vista/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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