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The Hill School Community Impact Statement

Fiscal Year 2025

 Proudly A Part of our Shared Pottstown Community Since 1851

  • The Hill School is one of Pottstown’s biggest employers. In FY2025, The Hill’s combined 398 full-time and part-time employees contributed approximately $176,500 in local payroll taxes and $13,380 in local services taxes.
     
  • The Hill School paid a total of $144,500 in real estate taxes for properties owned contiguous to the primary campus footprint.
     
  • The Hill School purchased approximately $3.2 million in goods and services from a large array of Pottstown businesses/vendors. This includes $66,600 paid to the Borough of Pottstown for building permits and drawing review fees and more than $765,000 to Moonlight Office Cleaning for janitorial services.
     
  • The Hill School paid $100,000 for the milling and paving of Sheridan Street (adjacent to CFTA parking lot).
     
  • The Hill School makes annual financial contributions to four local fire companies.
     
  • The Hill School contracts for its own water, sewage, and trash collection.
     
  • The Hill welcomes families from 31 states and 19 countries to Pottstown -- and our students, parents, alumni, and visitors as well as faculty and staff significantly support Pottstown businesses each year.
     
  • The Hill provided $718,821 in financial aid to 16 Pottstown area students (zip codes 19464 and 19465) to help them attend the School in 2025.
     
  • The Hill School provides ongoing financial support to the Hobart's Run neighborhood initiative by supporting the salaries of its two full-time staff members and a part-time administrative coordinator and funding its annual operating costs, signature revitalization programs, and community outreach events. In FY25, the School contributed $15,000 total to facade improvement and homeowner incentive programs, including the Block Captain program, neighborhood meetings, and other community engagement activities. To learn more about Hobart’s Run, go to hobartsrunpottstown.org. 
     
  • The School contributed $20,000 to Pottstown Area Economic Development, Inc.
     
  • Through our Student Philanthropy Council, in 2025 we provided $30,000 in grants to 11 different community nonprofits:  ArtFusion 19464; Centro Cultural Latinos Unidos; Connections Work; The Fight on Makenna Foundation; Foundation for Pottstown Education; Good Samaritan Services; Helping Hands, Inc.; Making A Difference Economically, Inc.; Pottstown Regional Public Library; Veterans' Island Project @ Memorial Park; Victim Services Center of Montgomery County, Inc. 
     
  • In fiscal year 2025, The Hill School and the School-supported Hobart’s Run initiative donated $20,000 to local charities. In addition, the Hobart’s Run initiative and our students and employees provided volunteer and financial support to organizations including: ArtFusion 19464; Be ReZilient; Centro Cultural Latinos Unidos, Inc. (CCLU);  Boyertown Area Multi-Service / The Ricketts Center; Edgewood Historic Cemetery; Foundation for Pottstown Education; Hearts of Humanity Community Development Corporation; Miller/Keystone Blood Bank; NAACP Pottstown Branch; Operation 143; Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation; Pottstown Beacon of Hope; Pottstown CARES; Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities; Pottstown FARM; Pottstown GOFourth!; Pottstown Historical Society; Pottstown Film Fest; Pottstown Regional Public Library; Steel River Playhouse; The STRIVE Initiative; Trellis For Tomorrow Youth Seeds Enterprise; TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce; TriCounty Community Network;  YWCA and YMCA; numerous Pottstown food, clothing, and toy drives; and various houses of worship.
     
  • The Hill School's Community Service Program engages with an array of nonprofits and philanthropic causes through its Afternoon Community Service Cocurricular Program,  student clubs, weekend activities, and service-learning projects connected to academic coursework. 
     
  • The Hill School shares its athletics and arts facilities with Pottstown organizations as possible, and an array of arts performances and exhibitions are free and open to the public.