Original Research by School Decision on Cedar Hills School
Cedar Hills School is a regular public school serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Kingman, a city in northwestern Arizona that functions as the Mohave County seat and a regional trade and distribution center. The school belongs to the Hackberry School District, a very small district that operates this single campus. For a family considering this school, the first thing to know is that the enrollment is small, with each grade containing only a handful of students. The student body is predominantly white, with a Hispanic share that reflects the broader Kingman area.
State testing results for the most recent year are suppressed for every grade and subject, in both math and English language arts and for science. This happens when the number of students tested is too small to report publicly, a common privacy protection for schools with very low enrollment. What that means for a parent is that there is no state-provided proficiency information to review. The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to consider. Beyond the state assessments, no data on chronic absenteeism, discipline, staffing, or course access was available in the source materials, and program offerings were not listed. A family wanting to understand the academic experience would need to reach out directly to the school for details about curriculum, special education services, English learner support, and extracurricular activities.
Kingman itself offers a mix of residential neighborhoods and highway-commercial strips, anchored by Interstate 40 and US Route 93. The historic Route 66 corridor runs through the city, and downtown contains a preserved historic district, the Mohave County Courthouse, and an Amtrak station with daily service on the Southwest Chief. Major employers include Kingman Regional Medical Center, Mohave County government, Kingman Unified School District, and the Kingman Airport Industrial Park. Housing values in the area are moderate relative to national and state benchmarks, and the rental market is similarly positioned. The city has seen steady growth over the postwar period, with industrial development and plans to upgrade US 93 to Interstate 11, which could influence future growth patterns.
The Hackberry School District itself is one of the smallest in Mohave County. A search for recent district-level changes or initiatives found no parent-relevant developments of lasting impact in available sources, which is not surprising given the district's size. The school year, the day-to-day operations, and the staffing are shaped by that small scale.
What Cedar Hills School offers is a very small, regular public school environment for families in the Kingman area who want a PK-8 setting. The suppression of all state testing data means that one common tool for comparing academic performance is simply not available here. The small enrollment likely means that siblings and neighborhood peers will be in classes together across grades, and that teachers work with very few students per grade. For a family that values a close-knit, rural-oriented school with low student numbers per classroom, that may be a positive. For a family that wants to see published proficiency rates or a wide array of program options, this school provides little in the way of public evidence to go on. The community context of Kingman, with its highway crossroads economy, historic downtown, and ongoing development, provides the broader setting. Without state test results or detailed district plans, the school remains something of a blank slate that a family would need to investigate firsthand.
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