ABQ CHARTER ACADEMY

ABQ CHARTER ACADEMY, a low-enrollment 9-12 campus in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE, serves 350 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 450.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, ABQ CHARTER ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ABQ CHARTER ACADEMY lists that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 6% multiracial, 5% White, 4% Native American, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 49% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.9:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bernalillo County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bernalillo County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), of which ABQ CHARTER ACADEMY is one.

LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

ABQ CHARTER ACADEMY operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, ABQ CHARTER ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ABQ CHARTER ACADEMY has rose 28%, going from 274 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 70% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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