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COPPERAS COVE J H
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About COPPERAS COVE J H
Located at 702 JOE LOMBARDI WAY, in COPPERAS COVE, Texas, COPPERAS COVE J H is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school that hosts 812 students (grades 6 through 8), run under COPPERAS COVE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so COPPERAS COVE J H sits 26% above that benchmark.
Across the 11 schools in COPPERAS COVE ISD (7,761 students total), COPPERAS COVE J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, COPPERAS COVE J H lists that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 14% Black, 11% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, COPPERAS COVE J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 44.6%, a residual of -2.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Coryell County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,301 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Coryell County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,561 students), COPPERAS COVE J H is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: MAE STEVENS EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COPPERAS COVE J H ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.9%.
COPPERAS COVE J H operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 827 students in 2018 compared to 812 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 46% to 35%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.
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