CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a close-knit elementary-level community in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, one of the schools within DUVAL, instructs 398 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 34% smaller than typical.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Hispanic, 17% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the resource side, On paper, CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Duval County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of -8.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate median household income runs about $71,277, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 220 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students).

Nearest neighbor: CHARGER ACADEMY, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CEDAR HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 26%, going from 540 students in 2018 to 398 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 60% to 45% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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