Coppell High School - Recent News

Recent News

The CISD Board of Trustees recently decided to not allow students outside of the top ten percent to have class ranks. Though this may help students in the bottom 50%, it can hurt students who are near the top 10%, as some colleges give automatic admission to students in the top 25%. Also, many public universities guarantee to give at least $1,000 per year for education to any student who ranks in the top 25% of their high school class, but students without class ranks can't qualify for that.

The school's population has grown steadily in the past decade, prompting the Texas University Interscholastic League to upgrade Coppell High School from the AAAA classification to AAAAA status for academic and athletic competition; they are currently placed in District 5-5A. Coppell High School has also changed their school schedule system from a trimester system with five periods per day, to a schedule with two semesters, with 3 6-weeks per semester with 7 periods each day.

In 2006, Coppell High School underwent a strategic plan to unify students, staff members and the community with in the large 5A school. As the strategic planning process continued in 2007, the decision was made at that point to implement thematic small learning communities, the career academies. More specifically, it allowed the students who signed up for it to attend academy specific classes that only academy students would be in, and to have an elective period occupied by the chosen academy. The choices that were/are available are under the categories of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Academy, the EMAC (Emerging Media and Communications) Academy, and the PSA (Public Services Academy) Academy. Freshmen and Sophomores of the 2010 class were the first students to be able to join the Academies.

Coppell High School was also ranked as the 429th best high school in the nation as ranked by www.thedailybeast.com for the 2012-2013 school year.