Enrollment
382
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000022
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY
6500 SUNSET GARDENS RD SW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87121 · (505) 836-0288 · Bernalillo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL382 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
381 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
25.8%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
18.8%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY's state test result (23.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY this school | 382 | 99.7% | 23.0% |
| EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 339 | 100.0% | 22.0% |
| RAMIREZ THOMAS ELEMENTARY SANTA FE | 417 | 100.0% | 18.8% |
| ALAMEDA ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 331 | 100.0% | 26.6% |
| SUNRISE ELEMENTARY ANTHONY | 406 | 100.0% | 25.2% |
| KIT CARSON ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 395 | 100.0% | 22.3% |
Matched among New Mexico elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #286 of 329 | #71 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #238 of 354 | #58 of 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #318 of 366 | #80 of 101 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 382 | #136 of 490 | #37 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #49 of 318 | #23 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.8% | #281 of 334 | #87 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.7% | #217 of 393 | #45 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.0% | #86 of 287 | #40 of 88 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
382
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 584
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 382 | 36 | 10.6:1 | 100% (381) |
| 2023-24 | 370 | 37.6 | 9.8:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 376 | 39.1 | 9.6:1 | 100% (376) |
| 2020-21 | 393 | 30 | 13.1:1 | 100% (393) |
| 2017-18 | 546 | 38 | 14.4:1 | 100% (546) |
| 2015-16 | 608 | 41 | 14.8:1 | 100% (608) |
| 2010-11 | 703 | 47 | 15.0:1 | 100% (700) |
| 2000-01 | 578 | 37 | 15.6:1 | 99% (575) |
| 1990-91 | 584 | 36 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (546 to 382); teachers down 5% (38 to 36).
About ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, one of the schools in ALBUQUERQUE. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 382 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New Mexico) has about 287 students.
District-wide, ALBUQUERQUE has 172 schools and 74,800 students.
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY enrolls a student body that is 91% Hispanic. It is also 4% White and 2% Native American. For comparison, the population of Bernalillo County is roughly 49% Hispanic. ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY has a diversity index of 17%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.6:1, with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Mexico is 12.9:1, higher than at this school. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 100% of enrollment. On average, public schools in Bernalillo County report 90%.
allk12 grades ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY a C-. The grade compares the school only with New Mexico public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY is 10.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (23.0% versus 33.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Mexico.
County data help place the school in context: in Bernalillo County, median household income is about $69,473, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY is among the 211 public schools in Bernalillo County.
MARK ARMIJO ACADEMY is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY ranks 4th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
The federal government classifies ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY's location as City: Large.
Federal counts put enrollment at 393 in 2020-21 and 382 in 2024-25, a 3% decrease. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.6:1) than in 2020-21 (13.1:1).
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Bernalillo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
673,930
Census ACS
Median income
$69,473
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
85,724 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Nearby schools
- MARK ARMIJO ACADEMY0.3 mi · 233
- MISSION ACHIEVEMENT AND SUCCESS 2.00.7 mi · 1,040
- LA ACADEMIA DE ESPERANZA0.9 mi · 238
- RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS0.9 mi · 203
- ATRISCO ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 205
- LAVALAND ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 369
Frequently asked questions
About ALAMOSA ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY?
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 382 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY serve?
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY have?
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.6:1.
How diverse is ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY?
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 4% White, 91% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY in?
ALAMOSA ELEMENTARY is part of ALBUQUERQUE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.