COOKE EL

COOKE EL operates as a mid-sized primary school in CLEBURNE, Texas, overseen by CLEBURNE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 501 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

CLEBURNE ISD comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,877 students; COOKE EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, COOKE EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, COOKE EL logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Johnson County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COOKE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.8%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of +2.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Johnson County put the typical household earns roughly $84,859 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. COOKE EL is one of 77 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students).

Nearest neighbor: AD WHEAT MIDDLE, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COOKE EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 501 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 53% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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