CEDAR HILL H S

CEDAR HILL H S is a high-enrollment four-year high school in CEDAR HILL, Texas, operated by CEDAR HILL ISD. The school caters to 1,974 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 148% bigger than typical.

CEDAR HILL H S is one of 12 schools operated by CEDAR HILL ISD, a district that serves 6,253 students overall.

On the student-mix side, CEDAR HILL H S lists that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment; the rest looks like 26% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 130 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CEDAR HILL H S is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.0%; CEDAR HILL H S posts 34.0%, -14.0 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), CEDAR HILL H S is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is W S PERMENTER MIDDLE, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CEDAR HILL H S. On composite proficiency, CEDAR HILL H S comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 17%: 1,689 students in 2018 compared to 1,974 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 26% across the same window.

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