COOPER H S

COOPER H S operates as an one-room-style high school in COOPER, Texas, overseen by COOPER ISD. Current enrollment sits at 224 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 72% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

COOPER ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 903 students; COOPER H S is among them.

Looking at the student body, COOPER H S reports that White students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Delta County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting COOPER H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Delta County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, COOPER H S is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 64.4%, a residual of +15.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Delta County) logs that median household income runs about $66,575, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. COOPER H S is one of 4 public schools in Delta County (combined enrollment of about 994 students).

COOPER J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around COOPER H S. On composite proficiency, COOPER H S comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COOPER H S has shrank 8%, going from 244 students in 2018 to 224 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 77% to 67%. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 in 2025.

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