Hillcrest High School (Riverside, California)

Hillcrest High School (Riverside, California)
Location
11800 Indiana Ave. Riverside , California 92503 United States
Coordinates	33°53′23″N117°29′08″W / 33.889722°N 117.485529°W / 33.889722; -117.485529
Information
Type	Public
Opened	2012
School district	Alvord Unified School District
Principal	Amanda Bentley
Teaching staff	77.60 (FTE) [1]
Grades	9-12
Number of students	1,782 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	22.96 [1]
Colors	Cardinal   Gold   White
Mascot	Trojans
Rival	La Sierra High School, Norte Vista High School
Website	https://alvord.k12.ca.us/hillcrest

Hillcrest High School (Riverside, California) is a public high school in Riverside, California, United States. Students from Ysmael Villegas Middle School, Arizona Middle School and transfers attend Hillcrest.

History

Hillcrest High School was completed in 2011 for $105 million and intended to relieve the overcrowded La Sierra High School, but did not open until August 2012 because the school district lacked the $4 million yearly operating budget. ^[2] It cost $1 million to keep the campus secure while closed. ^[3]

Athletics

Hillcrest is a member of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) River Valley League along with Jurupa Valley High School, La Sierra High School, Norte Vista High School, Patriot High School and Ramona High School.

Hillcrest 2 CIF State championships in both 2024-25 and the 2025-26 seasons.

The first one being Hillcrest woman’s basketball team winning in the CIF-SS 5AA State Championship against Santa Ana High School 39-36 in a comeback in Edison High School (Huntington Beach, California) on March 8, 2025

Then the Hillcrest football team won the CIFSS Division 10 State Championship against Tahquitz High School 63-36 on November 29, 2025.

References

1. "Hillcrest High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
2. McMillan, Rob (May 31, 2011). "Budget cuts will keep Riverside's new $105M Hillcrest High School closed". KABC . Retrieved June 15, 2011.
3. Willon, Phil (May 30, 2011). "Riverside's Hillcrest High: This fall, high-tech academic hub will have everything but students will not>". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 15, 2011.