COPELAND EL

As an expansive elementary-level community in HOUSTON, Texas, COPELAND EL teaches 951 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so COPELAND EL sits 83% bigger than that benchmark.

Within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, which oversees 92 schools and 117,927 students, COPELAND EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, COPELAND EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 23% White, 21% Black, 13% Asian, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, COPELAND EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 58.7%, a residual of +7.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), COPELAND EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HOLMSLEY EL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around COPELAND EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COPELAND EL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COPELAND EL has declined 6%, going from 1,011 students in 2018 to 951 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 31% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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