CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Texas 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 Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY
CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY operates as a low-enrollment intermediate school in CEDAR HILL, Texas, run under CEDAR HILL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 345 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 46% below typical.
CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is one of 12 schools operated by CEDAR HILL ISD, a district that educates 6,253 students overall.
In terms of who attends, CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY records that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.6%, the actual is 65.6%, a residual of +9.9 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is one.
The closest other public school is CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.4%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY has grew 14%, going from 302 students in 2018 to 345 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 56% to 66%.
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