school located in the village is Countryside Elementary School, with about 500 students, in grades K-5, in the Barrington Community Unit School District 220. Students from Countryside either attend Barrington Middle School Prairie or Barrington Middle School Station. Older students attend the nearby Barrington High School. Portions of the village are also within CUSD 300 of Dundee-Crown High School. Also the village is served by Cary-Grove High School. Some families send their children to the private Elgin Academy. Geography Barrington Hills is located at (42.1399063, -88.2034182). According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Barrington Hills has a total area of , of which (or 97.77%) is land and (or 2.23%) is water. The village is located within the Fox River watershed of the greater Illinois River waterway. There is about of shoreline along the east bank of the Fox River. Locally there are two perennial stream courses known to the west as Spring Creek and to the east as Flint Creek. Over the years, Flint Creek has been impounded such that along its course in the Cook County portion of the village are substantial lakes with such names as Hawley, Hawthorne, and Keene. Into the 1990s, farmers still worked about of land. Residential properties of over covered 30 percent. There is no downtown center, but the village has a small shopping strip along Route 14. With a population of 4,209 in 2010, Barrington Hills has kept its rural flavor as industrial and commercial development has sprung up around its borders. The village is bordered on the west by East Dundee, Carpentersville, and Algonquin; on the north by Fox River Grove, and Lake Barrington; on the east by Barrington and Inverness; and to the south and southeast by South Barrington, and Hoffman Estates. Barrington Hills is one of only three municipalities in Illinois (along with Aurora and Centralia) with land located among four counties. Demographics 2020 Census As of the 2020 census there were 4,114 people, 1,438 households, and 1,277 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 1,651 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 83.01% White, 8.51% Asian, 1.05% African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.95% from other races, and 6.37% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.15% of the population. There were 1,438 households, out of which 64.05% had children under