Cedar Falls High School

As a roomy secondary school in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Cedar Falls High School hosts 1,333 students from grades 10 through 12, operated by Cedar Falls Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Cedar Falls High School sits 185% bigger than that benchmark.

Cedar Falls Comm School District comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,853 students; Cedar Falls High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Cedar Falls High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian.

On the resource side, The school employs 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Cedar Falls High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Black Hawk County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Cedar Falls High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.6%, the actual is 79.5%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Black Hawk County shows median household earnings sit near $66,417, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Cedar Falls High School is one of 35 public schools in Black Hawk County (combined enrollment of about 18,224 students).

The closest other public school is Helen A Hansen Elementary School, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedar Falls High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 82.4%.

Cedar Falls High School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Cedar Falls High School's enrollment has increased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,117 (now 1,333). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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