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CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP
As an average-sized elementary school in CEDAR HILL, Texas, CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP serves 520 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within CEDAR HILL ISD.
CEDAR HILL ISD comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,253 students; CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP is among them.
On the student-mix side, CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP shows that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP higher than the state norm the norm. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of +4.4 points.
In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP is one.
PLUMMER EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 30.9%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Over the past 7-year window. CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE PREP's enrollment has edged up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 484 (now 520).
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