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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Hillcrest Middle School, Tuscaloosa, AL

CEP schoolHillcrest Middle School is a public middle school in Tuscaloosa, part of Tuscaloosa County Public Schools. It enrolled 542 students in 2024-25, with 19.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
542
Teachers (FTE)
28.0
Students per teacher
19.4
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 2.2 higher than the district figure of 17.2. The Alabama average across schools is 17.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school19.4
District17.2
Alabama17.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
401 Hillcrest School Rd, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405
Phone
(205)342-2820
District
Tuscaloosa County Public Schools
County
Tuscaloosa County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Midsize
NCES school ID
010339001280
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
318
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
31858.7% of enrollment.
Direct certification
318Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Tuscaloosa County Public Schools

Middle schools elsewhere in Tuscaloosa

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.