Cedar Grove El, Livingston TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Cedar Grove El

Cedar Grove Elementary is a regular public school in Livingston, a small county seat in the Piney Woods of East Texas. The school serves grades one through five with an enrollment of about five hundred students, drawn from a community where roughly two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with substantial Hispanic enrollment and a smaller Black population; demographic data on students learning English as a second language was not available.

In reading and language arts, Cedar Grove's performance is a clear strength. Across grades three, four, and five, proficiency rates hovered around two-thirds, consistently in the upper half range. The school performs measurably better in ELA than in math: about two-thirds of students tested in each grade met or exceeded proficiency in reading, and nearly nine in ten approached proficiency. Writing and foundational literacy appear to be solid across the school.

Mathematics proficiency is lower and grade-dependent. Third grade math proficiency sat around four in ten, rising to about six in ten by fourth and fifth grade, suggesting that Cedar Grove's younger elementary students may need additional math support or intervention, while older students show stronger gains. About eight in ten students approach proficiency in math overall, but the gap between "approaching" and "meeting" proficiency widens in the lower grades.

Science is the school's softest area. Only about one-third of fifth graders met or exceeded proficiency in science, the lowest performance across all subjects tested. Social studies proficiency was similarly low, with about one-third meeting standards. A parent may want to look into further with the school what supports exist for elementary students in these content areas.

When viewed across all tested subjects and grade levels, Cedar Grove's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile relative to other districts in Polk County, a meaningful positioning that suggests the school is outperforming its county peers overall despite subject-level soft spots.

The school sits in Livingston proper, a historic downtown anchored by the Polk County Courthouse. Cedar Grove's address on West Church Street places it close to that civic core, though Livingston's schools operate on separate campuses away from the downtown squares. The town itself is small, car-dependent, and anchored by county government, historic Main Street shops, and health-care and corrections employment. Housing prices in the zip code are below the Texas state benchmark, making this a more affordable market for families, though rental costs have been rising modestly. The district, meanwhile, has held the line on property tax rates through multiple consecutive years of decreases and is investing in new facilities, including a major athletic complex, without raising taxes.

Cedar Grove offers a solid elementary foundation in literacy and a county-leading overall proficiency profile, with math and science as areas where additional instructional attention may be warranted, particularly in the early grades.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 343%

School 43% · District 44% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median

Grade 456%

School 56% · district not reported

▲ 15 pts above state median

Grade 559%

School 59% · district not reported

▲ 18 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 364%

School 64% · District 53% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median

Grade 464%

School 64% · district not reported

▲ 15 pts above state median

Grade 564%

School 64% · district not reported

▲ 10 pts above state median

Science

Grade 536%

School 36% · District 28% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median

This schoolLIVINGSTON ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income57%Higher-income85%28 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income54%Higher-income87%33 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income52%Higher-income80%28 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income37%Higher-income59%22 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income47%Higher-income77%30 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income43%Higher-income80%37 pp gap