Schools in Hillside · Kingston City School District
Hillside’s public schools score below 70% of New York districts
The public schools Hillside’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 70% of New York’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
10%beats similar-income towns
Reading proficiency
59%
▼ 3 pts vs NY 62%
2020–21
Math proficiency
44%
▼ 12 pts vs NY 56%
2020–21
Graduate on time
81%
▼ 3 pts vs NY 84%
class of 2020
Spent per student
$34.0K
▼ 2% vs NY $34.6K
FY2024
Schools
0
The School Grade
How Hillside compares
C+ Test scoresC− Graduation
New York school districts we grade (781)Better than 30%
Lower resultsHigher results
New York towns with similar household incomes (426)Better than 10%
High confidence. Built on 1,635 tested students and a graduating class of 535; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change it.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on New York’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of New York only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so 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 will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Hillside.
7 schools teach K in Hillside’s district. Which one depends on your address: George Washington School, Harry L Edson School, Robert R Graves School and John F Kennedy School and more.
7 schools teach 1st grade in Hillside’s district. Which one depends on your address: George Washington School, Harry L Edson School, Robert R Graves School and John F Kennedy School and more.
7 schools teach 2nd grade in Hillside’s district. Which one depends on your address: George Washington School, Harry L Edson School, Robert R Graves School and John F Kennedy School and more.
7 schools teach 3rd grade in Hillside’s district. Which one depends on your address: George Washington School, Harry L Edson School, Robert R Graves School and John F Kennedy School and more.
7 schools teach 4th grade in Hillside’s district. Which one depends on your address: George Washington School, Harry L Edson School, Robert R Graves School and John F Kennedy School and more.
The path, start to finish
PK–47 elementary schoolsDepends on your address
5–82 middle schoolsDepends on your address
9–12Kingston High Schoolin Kingston
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Test scores · 2020–21
Below the state in reading
Reading59%
State average 62.4%
Math44%
State average 55.9%
Hillside vs. its neighbors
Hillside’s schools rank 1st of 3 among the towns that share its borders. School Grade, by percentile among New York districts.
Every school in Hillside
0 schools. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.
Also serving Hillside · in other towns
George Washington School
D492 students12:1Rate it →
Harry L Edson School
C−397 students9:1Rate it →
Robert R Graves School
B+325 students10:1Rate it →
John F Kennedy School
D322 students9:1Rate it →
E R Crosby Elementary School
C+311 students10:1Rate it →
Chambers School
C306 students9:1Rate it →
Ernest C Myer School
B213 students10:1Rate it →
J Watson Bailey Middle School
C−936 students9:1Rate it →
M Clifford Miller Middle School
D826 students9:1Rate it →
Kingston High School
A+1,749 students12:1Rate it →
Parents talk
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Within reach
Colleges →Colleges near Hillside
There’s no college in Hillside, but 10 are within 30 miles. The closest is Ulster County Community College in Marbletown, 6.8 miles away.
Ulster County Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Marbletown
6.8 mi2,717 students
Bard CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Red Hook
9.5 mi2,818 students
State University of New York at New PaltzUniversity or college · Public · New Paltz
12.6 mi7,050 students
Culinary Institute of AmericaUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Hyde Park
13 mi3,015 students
Marist UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Poughkeepsie
14.6 mi5,951 students
Dutchess Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Poughkeepsie
15 mi5,448 students
Vassar CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Poughkeepsie
17.6 mi2,456 students
Columbia-Greene Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Greenport
23.4 mi1,426 students
Yeshiva of OceanUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Wawarsing
27.3 mi57 students
Mount Saint Mary CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Newburgh
28 mi2,190 students
Straight-line distance from the center of Hillside. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within New York. Stars are from neighbors.