Cedar Heights Elementary School

Cedar Heights Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in Cedar Falls, Iowa, run under Cedar Falls Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 451 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Cedar Heights Elementary School sits 39% above that benchmark.

Cedar Falls Comm School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,853 students. Cedar Heights Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Cedar Heights Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 9% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cedar Heights Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 34% of students at Cedar Heights Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Black Hawk County's rate of about 52%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cedar Heights Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.1%, the actual is 73.3%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Black Hawk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,417 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Black Hawk County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,224 students), Cedar Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Orchard Hill Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cedar Heights Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Cedar Heights Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 521 students in 2018 compared to 451 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 82% to 77% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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