COPPERFIELD EL

Located at 12135 THOMPKINS DR, in AUSTIN, Texas, COPPERFIELD EL is a reasonably sized K-5 school that serves 526 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by PFLUGERVILLE ISD.

COPPERFIELD EL is one of 35 schools operated by PFLUGERVILLE ISD, a district that serves 25,477 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, COPPERFIELD EL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 15% Black, 5% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, COPPERFIELD EL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at COPPERFIELD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, COPPERFIELD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Around the school, Travis County reports that median household income runs about $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), COPPERFIELD EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA PARMER PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COPPERFIELD EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COPPERFIELD EL has increased 27%, going from 413 students in 2018 to 526 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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