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S C LEE J H
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 S C LEE J H
S C LEE J H operates as a moderately sized 6-8 campus in COPPERAS COVE, Texas, one of the schools within COPPERAS COVE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 932 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 45% above the state mean of about 643.
Within COPPERAS COVE ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 7,761 students, S C LEE J H is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, S C LEE J H logs that the most-represented group is White (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 31% Hispanic, 22% Black, 11% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at S C LEE J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, S C LEE J H sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 48.1%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Coryell County put median household income runs about $71,301, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Coryell County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,561 students), of which S C LEE J H is one.
J L WILLIAMS/LOVETT LEDGER EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 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), S C LEE J H ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.3%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 4%: 895 students in 2018 compared to 932 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.
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Coryell County at a glance
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