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Cedar Hill High School
1 LONGHORN BLVD, CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, 75104 | Grades 10-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
1,790
|
122
|
20% | 13 |
| District | 8,090 | 498 | 17% | 13 |
| State | 4.01M | 269,017 | 14% | 15 |
Cedar Hill High School, part of the Cedar Hill ISD, is located in Cedar Hill, Texas. The school reports enrolling 1,790 students in grades 10 through 12, and it has 122 teachers on staff.
Cedar Hill High School is below both the state and district averages in terms of the percentage of its students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 48 percent of students in Texas are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, while 40 percent of Cedar Hill High School students are eligible. At the district level, 51 percent are eligible.
ProPublica's analysis found that all too often, states and schools provide poor students fewer educational programs like Advanced Placement, gifted and talented programs, and advanced math and science classes. Studies have linked participation in these programs with better outcomes later in life. Our analysis uses free and reduced-price lunch to estimate poverty at schools. We based our findings on the most comprehensive data set of access to advanced classes and special programs in U.S. public schools — known as the Civil Rights Data Set— released by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
Cedar Hill High School offers 13 AP courses, and 20 percent of students participate in those classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams is the same as the district's, both at 29 percent.
A school's AP pass rate is determined by the number of students who both sat for AP exams and passed some or all of those exams.
Cedar Hill High School has an enrollment rate of 23 percent for physics classes, and 38 percent of students take physics. The enrollment rate for the school's gifted and talented program is 5 percent.
San Benito High School, in San Benito, Texas, is a lower-poverty school than Cedar Hill High School, with 10 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers 12 AP courses, and 9 percent of students are enrolled in those classs.
These data points were reported by schools and districts to the Office for Civil Rights. For more information about the data, see our full methodology.
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