CEDAR CREST EL vs BRENTFIELD EL

Cedar Crest El holds a narrow overall edge over Brentfield El — 9.4/10 versus 8.9/10, a 0.5-point gap — but both schools rank among Texas's very best elementary campuses. Cedar Crest El sits at #35 of 8,547 schools statewide, while Brentfield El lands at #214, meaning both clear the top 3% in Texas. Parents choosing between them are not choosing between a good school and a bad one; they are parsing meaningful differences in how each school serves its students.

Academically, the two schools diverge sharply in opposite directions. Brentfield El scores a near-perfect 9.9/10 on academic proficiency versus Cedar Crest El's 8.7/10 — a 1.2-point difference favoring Brentfield El on raw test performance. Cedar Crest El, however, posts a perfect 10.0/10 growth score against Brentfield El's 9.3/10, indicating that Cedar Crest El is consistently accelerating students beyond expected trajectories at an exceptional rate. A family weighing current achievement levels against year-over-year student progress will find these two schools pulling in different directions.

The demographic and structural differences between the two campuses are striking. Cedar Crest El enrolls 373 students with a student-teacher ratio of 11.3:1; Brentfield El enrolls 812 students at 14.8:1 — more than double the enrollment and 31% fewer adults per child. Cedar Crest El serves a student body that is 99% free and reduced lunch eligible, compared to 12% at Brentfield El. These figures reflect fundamentally different community contexts: Cedar Crest El operates as a high-poverty, high-performing campus delivering exceptional growth outcomes with small class sizes, while Brentfield El serves a predominantly affluent population at more than twice the enrollment.

Both schools cover identical grade bands — PK through 6th grade — meaning neither offers an extended elementary program advantage. The two campuses sit 16.4 miles apart within the Dallas metro, making them realistic alternatives only for families with geographic flexibility. Cedar Crest El's combination of a perfect growth score and tight student-teacher ratio makes its academic trajectory results especially notable given the population it serves.