Lubbock-Cooper South Elementary School

Size

Lubbock-Cooper South Elementary School is the 4th largest of Lubbock-Cooper ISD's 5 elementary schools; its 708 students are 8.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 5.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 601; Lubbock-Cooper South Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 135 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 44, against an average of 101 per grade. This year grade 5 has 47% more students than kindergarten (131 against 89). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 44 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 51.6% here and 51.5% across Lubbock-Cooper ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 46.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

37.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 29.4% across Lubbock-Cooper ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 53.83 full-time-equivalent teachers for 708 students, Lubbock-Cooper South Elementary School has 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 708 students would have about 47.8 teachers, so Lubbock-Cooper South Elementary School has 6 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Lubbock-Cooper South Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Lubbock-Cooper East Elementary School, 2.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 31 other elementary schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.