Coppell High School is a

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located in Coppell,

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. It is part of the

Coppell Independent School District The Coppell Independent School District is a school district based in Coppell, Texas (USA). The district includes most of Coppell and small parts of Grapevine, Irving (including a portion of Valley Ranch), Dallas and Lewisville. In 2009, th ...

located in extreme northwest

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. In 2015, the school was rated " Met Standard" by the

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Overview

The school graduated its first class of twenty-five students in 1965. As of the 2017-2018 school year, enrollment was 3,505 students in grades 9-12, however that number decreased in 2018-2019, as the school split the 9th grade to CHS9. There are over 200 staff members at Coppell High School to accommodate the student body of over 2500. Athletic teams are known as the "Cowboys" or "Cowgirls" for boys' and girls' teams, respectively. The school colors are red and black. The school slogan is #CHSRise. The principal is Laura Springer. Coppell High School was named a 2001-02

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due to the new SAS class. Coppell High School has been ranked consistently as one of the "Top 1200 U.S. High Schools."

Demographics

As of the 20172018 school year, the student population is made up of the following ethnicities out of 3,505 students. As of the 2018-2019 school year, its student population is made up of the following grade levels: Sophomore (10), Junior (11), Senior (12)

Recent news

The school's population has grown steadily in the past decade, prompting the Texas University Interscholastic League to upgrade Coppell High School from the 4A classification to 5A status for academic and athletic competition, and then again to 6A; they are currently placed in District 6-6A. Coppell High School also changed their school schedule system starting in the 2017-2018 school year from a 7 period schedule to an 8 period modified block schedule. The exact schedule has changed year to year, but a modified block schedule employing 2 types of days with 4 classes per day on alternating "A" and "B" days is currently in place. In 2006, Coppell High School underwent a strategic plan to unify students, staff members and the community within 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. As of May 2015, Coppell High School was ranked 50th in the state of Texas, and 395th nationally by ''US News''.

Academic achievements

Coppell Solar

The Coppell Solar Racing Team is a group of students from the Coppell School of Engineering that has designed, built, and raced solar cars in the national high school solar car competition since 2008. The team finished 2nd in both the 2018 cross-country race and 2019 Electric-Solar Division race at Texas Motor Speedway.

Speech and debate

The debate squad travels nationally every year. The team has members who participate in

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and

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, including the Lincoln-Douglas debate. During the 2007-2008, 2009-2010, and 2010-2011 school years, the debate squad qualified a policy team for the

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. During the 2011-2012 school year, one of the school's teams placed second at the 5A UIL State tournament, and the school often has students make it to elimination rounds of the TFA State tournament. In 2014, the debate squad had its top team place 7th at the National Speech and Debate Tournament for policy debate as well as qualify for the

. In 2019, the policy debate squad's top team placed first at the TFA State tournament and made it to elimination rounds of the 2019

Health Occupations Students of America

The Coppell HOSA Chapter was nationally recognized as an Outstanding HOSA Chapter for the 2013–2014 school year. The Coppell HOSA Public Service Announcement team placed first in the State Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas (2014-2015). The team attended the NLC (National Leadership Conference) in Anaheim, California in June 2015.

''School newspaper, The Sidekick''

''The Sidekick'' newspaper at CHS is a student-led journalistic platform known for its stories, photos, videos, podcasts and graphics/page design. ''The Sidekicks purpose is to inform, entertain and provide an educational resource for its readers. This newspaper is a public forum for student expression, with staff members (with assistance from their adviser) making content decisions. The Sidekick is a member of Interscholastic League Press Conference (ILPC), National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA), Southern Interscholastic Press Association (SIPA), Quill and Scroll International Honor Society and Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA). For the 2019-20 school year, the program was nationally recognized as an NSPA Pacemaker, CSPA Crown and Dallas Morning News Best Website award winner, in addition to receiving ILPC Gold and Bronze Stars and numerous NSPA Best of Show Awards.

Student television program

''KCBY-TV'', the school's weekly media program, was nationally recognized as a Broadcast Pacemaker award winner in 2015 and 2017 by the National Scholastic Press Association. KCBY also received four Lone Star EMMY awards in November 2019 for their accomplishments in KCBY-TV and KCBY-Español.

Athletics

The Coppell Cowboys and Cowgirls compete in the

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(UIL) as 6A teams in the following sports: 12,000-capacity Buddy Echols Field is the main high school stadium. *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

* Cross country *

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

Hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effor ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

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and

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

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Hockey

Hockey is not UIl sponsored sport in Texas. It is run by the Texas Amateur Hockey Association thru local geographic leagues utilizing USA hockey rules. There are two statewide divisions. One for teams where all players attend the same school (Div 1) and one for players that attend different schools (Div 2) sometimes within the same district but also includes players that are homeschooled or attend districts without teams. In 2008, 2012, 2013, and 2014 the team won the Summer League Championship.

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is organized by the Texas High School Lacrosse League (THSLL) rather than the UIL. Coppell's lacrosse team has won four state THSLL championships: 2009 and 2010 in Division 2, and 2011 and 2021 in Division 1.

Volleyball

The Coppell Cowgirls volleyball team won back to back state championships in 2011 and 2012.

Soccer

The Coppell Cowboys soccer team won the 5A state championship in 2004 and 2013, and the 6A state championship in 2016. The Coppell Cowgirls soccer team won the 5A state championship in 2009, and the 6A state championship in 2015.

Ultimate frisbee

The Coppell Cowboys Ultimate team won the USA Ultimate High School state championship in 2012 and 2013.

Notable alumni

Peyton Ernst Peyton Michelle Ernst (born January 27, 1997) is a former American collegiate and artistic gymnast. Personal life Ernst was born in Covington, Louisiana, in 1997 and began gymnastics in 1999. She currently lives in Coppell, Texas.Laura Gao Laura Gao () is a Chinese-American comics artist. Gao became famous when she released a short comic called "The Wuhan I Know" in response to the growing sinophobia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The comic was later used as the basis for her graph ...

, Chinese-American comics author & artist * Cole Green, professional baseball player *

Marcelinho Huertas Marcelo "Marcelinho" Tieppo Huertas (born 25 May 1983) is a Brazilian professional basketball player for Iberostar Tenerife of the Spanish Liga ACB. He is also a member of the senior men's Brazilian national basketball team, and holds Italian ...

, professional basketball player *

Corey Kluber Corey Scott Kluber (born April 10, 1986) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays. He made his M ...

, professional baseball player 2x AL

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winner 2017 and 2014, 3x All Star *

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, actress * Jeff Lewis, singer-songwriter * Sharon Mathai, singer * Cam McDaniel, former college football player for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish * Emmanuel Moody, professional football player * Erik Nieder, Christian musician *

Dan Raudabaugh Daniel "Red" Raudabaugh (born March 30, 1987) is an American football coach, former player, who is currently the offensive coordinator for the Frisco Fighters. He played college football at Miami University. High school career Raudabaugh attend ...

, professional football player *

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, voice actress *

Jason Stokes Jason Stokes (born January 23, 1982 in Irving, Texas) is a former professional baseball player. Primarily a first baseman, he played in Minor League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics and Florida Marlins organizations. Biography As a senior for C ...

, professional baseball player * Solomon Thomas, professional football player *

Chioma Ubogagu Chioma Grace Ubogagu (born 10 September 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays mainly as a forward for Women's Super League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team. She previously played for Orlando Pride, Brisban ...

, professional soccer player *

Chiaka Ogbogu Chiaka Sylvia Ogbogu (born April 15, 1995) is an American professional volleyball player. She plays for VakıfBank S.K. and the United States women's volleyball team. She participated in the 2018 Pan American Cup and the 2018 and 2019 FIVB V ...

, professional women's volleyball player, USA Women's Gold Medal Team member, Tokyo Olympics 2020 * Connor Williams, professional football player

References

External links

Coppell High School website

Coppell Independent School District website
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