CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S
CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S, a minimally staffed four-year high school in CEDAR HILL, Texas, run under CEDAR HILL ISD, educates 304 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S sits 62% leaner than that benchmark.
CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S is one of 12 schools operated by CEDAR HILL ISD, a district that enrolls 6,253 students overall.
Looking at the student body, CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S shows that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 41% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 55.1%; CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S posts 82.5%, +27.4 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE H S has shrank 25%, going from 403 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 34% to 41% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 29.7:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.
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