"DEDICATED TO ACADEMICS, CHARACTER, LEADERSHIP"

Hillcrest Academy is a 501(C)(3), non-sectarian, coeducational day school, serving children in grades kindergarten through eight. Hillcrest was originally founded as a Carden school in Temecula in 1977. Hillcrest provides a comprehensive, sequential, integrated curriculum that concerns itself with the development of the whole child in a nurturing, safe environment.

Hillcrest offers a rich humanities based program that emphasizes problem solving and critical thinking skills. Beginning in kindergarten and continuing through eighth grade, students learn French daily, and study art and music in addition to their academic subjects of math, language arts, science, history and geography.

In fourth grade, Spanish becomes a foreign language choice, and middle school students also participate in drama and speech. All students may access information from our computer lab and individual classroom computers. Keyboarding instruction is part of our fourth and fifth grade curriculum while middle school students spend a quarter of the school year leaning all aspects of Microsoft Word. Physical education rounds out the curriculum while field trips to Sacramento, the Pilgrim in Dana Point, the Catalina Island Marine institute, New England, Spain, and France enhance and connect the learning experience for Hillcrest students.

Most Hillcrest students live in the Temecula Valley, which encompasses the cities of Murrieta and Temecula. The Temecula Valley, located at the southern end of Riverside County, is the fastest growing area in Southern California.

Hillcrest endeavors to graduate deeply connected children who show both compassion and passion for people, for their own goals and dreams, for life itself.