Hills, MN schools
Hills’s public schools score well above Minnesota’s averages: 62% of students are proficient in reading against 52.5% statewide, and 90% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.4%. Kids attend Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary through grade 5, then Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Hills’s School Grade: A
The public schools Hills’s kids attend outperform 92% of Minnesota’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Minnesota’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Minnesota only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Minnesota with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Hills kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
90% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
The district serving Hills
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Hills
There’s no college in Hills, but 4 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Augustana University in Sioux Falls, 18.9 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Hills. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 3 schools in Hills
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Hills kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Hills’s district that are located in Beaver Creek.