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Cedar Hall Community School
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cedar Hall Community School
Cedar Hall Community School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Evansville, Indiana, run under Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 496 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.
Cedar Hall Community School is one of 38 schools operated by Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, a district that instructs 21,589 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Cedar Hall Community School reports that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 21% Black, 17% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.
On the resource side, Cedar Hall Community School logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Cedar Hall Community School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 71% of students at Cedar Hall Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Vanderburgh County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cedar Hall Community School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.0%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Vanderburgh County) logs that median household earnings sit near $61,648, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Cedar Hall Community School is one of 44 public schools in Vanderburgh County (combined enrollment of about 22,423 students).
Nearest neighbor: Helfrich Park STEM Academy, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cedar Hall Community School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedar Hall Community School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 22.7%.
Cedar Hall Community School operates from a high-density location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Hall Community School has shrank 7%, going from 533 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.
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Vanderburgh County at a glance
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