Cedar High School
Shelton · WA · Shelton School District · Public
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Shelton High School → Choice Middle and High School → Mason County Detention Center → Shelton Open Doors → Garrett Heyns High School → Capital High School → Mary M. Knight School → Touchstone →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 7% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Cedar High School compares for families
What families should know about Cedar High School.
- ▸ LocallyWA sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Shelton High School, Choice Middle and High School, Mason County Detention Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 7% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
📊 State assessment · WA Smarter Balanced · grade 10
SBAC grade 10 — met or exceeded standard
School year 2024-25. Levels 3 + 4 combined ("at or above grade level"). Cells suppressed by the state when sample is small.
Source: WA state DOE Smarter Balanced results. Levels 1–2 = below standard, 3 = met, 4 = exceeded. Headline = level 3 + level 4 combined.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +6.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 100 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelton High School Shelton |
Public | 0.8 | 1,455 | -3.6% |
| Choice Middle and High School Shelton |
Public | 1.0 | 189 | +6.8% |
| Mason County Detention Center Shelton |
Public | 1.0 | 1 | — |
| Shelton Open Doors SHELTON |
Public | 1.2 | 22 | — |
| Garrett Heyns High School Shelton |
Public | 4.0 | — | — |
| Capital High School OLYMPIA |
Public | 14.8 | 1,322 | -4.1% |
| Mary M. Knight School Elma |
Public | 15.2 | 45 | — |
| Touchstone Olympia |
Public | 15.6 | 2 | — |