LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL

As a medium-sized K-5 school in LUBBOCK, Texas, LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL educates 624 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within LUBBOCK-COOPER ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL sits 20% bigger than that benchmark.

LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL is one of 10 schools operated by LUBBOCK-COOPER ISD, a district that enrolls 8,030 students overall.

Demographically, LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL logs that White students make up the majority at 58%; the rest breaks down as 31% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 24% of students at LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lubbock County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.4%, the actual is 64.6%, a residual of +1.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lubbock County put the typical household earns roughly $64,155 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL is one of 110 public schools in Lubbock County (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students).

The closest other public school is SMITH EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LUBBOCK-COOPER WEST EL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 55.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 755 students in 2018 compared to 624 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 58% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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