Priority Charter Schools Copperas Cove

Size

Of the 2 schools in Priority Charter Schools, Priority Charter Schools Copperas Cove is the smallest, with 41.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest schools are a median 33.1 miles away and have a median of 228 students, so Priority Charter Schools Copperas Cove is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 2 with 21 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 9, against an average of 15 per grade. This year grade 12 has 18% fewer students than kindergarten (9 against 11). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 18 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 32.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Priority Charter Schools (33.3%). White students are next, at 30.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.3% across Priority Charter Schools and a median of 61.6% for Texas 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

Priority Charter Schools Copperas Cove has 15.64 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 210 students would have about 19.1 teachers, so Priority Charter Schools Copperas Cove has 3.5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (11).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other school is Adventhealth School, 6.4 miles away in Killeen ISD. There are 0 schools within 5 miles and 1 within 10 miles.

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