Hillside Elementary School

585 Central Avenue

School District

Needham
Grade

K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:13
Type

public

GreatSchools Rating

The school rating calculation is based on four ratings: the Student Progress Rating or Academic Progress Rating, College Readiness Rating, Equity Rating, and Test Score Rating each designed to show different facets of school success. Learn more about GreatSchools Ratings

Reviews

Submitted by parent on July 26, 2024

This used to be a great school under the old principal who retired. Under the new principal, she cares nothing about knowledge teaching. The test score, ranking, greatschool score all drop dramatically in a short two years. This is a newly built school, great facilities, sadly they spent too much time on transporting South Boston kids to this school rather than caring about education.
Submitted by parent on October 07, 2021

My daughter used to go to this school. The school itself now is in a different location with a different name but the staff stayed the same. The teachers were nice to both the students and parents/guardians. My daughter got bullied a slight bit (Not physically, she told me some kids were calling her names) but the teachers did not do anything to stop this. Another negative experience my daughter had with this school was when most of the kids at lunch were very noisy and as she said they were screaming(?). She told me the teachers made everyone stay silent for the rest of the lunch, including those who did not make a lot of noise, which is unreasonable in my opinion as they did not do anything. Overall, I would recommend Hillside (Now Sunita Williams) to others, but the teachers should pay more attention to what is going on, but when something happens they should not punish the children that were not responsible for what other children did.
Submitted by parent on April 26, 2020

Hillside and Sunita Williams are outstanding schools.
Submitted by parent on January 21, 2018

So far our experience with kindergarten has been outstanding. Our daughter loves her teacher and school