Cedar Hill Elementary School

Size

Cedar Hill Elementary School is the 7th largest of Jefferson City School District's 11 elementary schools; its 313 students are 3.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 321; Cedar Hill Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is kindergarten with 58 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 42, against an average of 52 per grade. This year grade 5 has 16% fewer students than kindergarten (49 against 58). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 64.9% here and 60% across Jefferson City. Black students are next, at 14.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

49.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 55.7% across Jefferson City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 21.1% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 28.14 full-time-equivalent teachers for 313 students, Cedar Hill Elementary School has 11.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 313 students would have about 25.4 teachers, so Cedar Hill Elementary School has 2.7 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

Cedar Hill Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is South Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 12 other elementary schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.