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What's something ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
384
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000924
ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL
8100 MOUNTAIN RD. NE, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87110 · (505) 344-0746 · Bernalillo County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL384 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.4:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
119 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 37 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 32 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 5% smaller than its 8th grade class (39).
Student demographics
58%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
49.4%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
29.6%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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
42.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL
ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL's state test result (42.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL this school | 384 | 31.0% | 42.7% |
| EXPLORE ACADEMY - RIO RANCHO RIO RANCHO | 430 | 33.0% | 44.6% |
| SUNSET ELEMENTARY CARLSBAD | 438 | 28.3% | 34.3% |
| MONTERREY ELEMENTARY CARLSBAD | 366 | 28.1% | 41.4% |
| DESERT WILLOW ELEMENTARY CARLSBAD | 667 | 22.0% | 43.2% |
| COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY CARLSBAD | 684 | 28.1% | 38.9% |
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 ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #84 of 329 | #25 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #140 of 354 | #35 of 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #109 of 366 | #32 of 101 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 384 | #134 of 490 | #36 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #42 of 318 | #20 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.7% | #79 of 334 | #35 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.0% | #378 of 393 | #98 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #202 of 287 | #74 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
384
-88 (-19%) vs 2020
+53% since 2010-11, when it was 251
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
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 | 384 | 36.9 | 10.4:1 | 31% (119) |
| 2023-24 | 409 | 38.8 | 10.5:1 | 68% (278) |
| 2022-23 | 451 | 36.8 | 12.3:1 | 39% (177) |
| 2020-21 | 472 | 36 | 13.1:1 | 32% (149) |
| 2017-18 | 444 | 28.6 | 15.5:1 | 36% (161) |
| 2015-16 | 329 | 20 | 16.4:1 | 32% (105) |
| 2010-11 | 251 | 13 | 19.3:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (444 to 384); teachers up 29% (28.6 to 36.9).
About ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL
In ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, part of Bernalillo County, ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL is an elementary school. It teaches 384 students in kindergarten through 8. Elementary schools in New Mexico have about 287 students on average; enrollment here is 34% higher.
ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one school in a 172-school district, ALBUQUERQUE, which enrolls 74,800 students.
More than half of enrollment at ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL is Hispanic: 57%. Next come 30% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, and 3% Native American. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL scores 58%.
Staffing at ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL comes to 36.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New Mexico is 12.9:1. ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL counts 31% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 90% average for public schools in Bernalillo County is 59 points higher.
ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 52% of New Mexico public elementary schools.
The model predicts 50.0% for a school in New Mexico with ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL posts 42.7%.
The school's county is Bernalillo County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $69,473, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Bernalillo County's 211 public schools enroll about 85,724 students and include ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
HAYES MIDDLE is the nearest public school to ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL is run as a public charter school.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 472 to 384, a 19% decline. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.4:1.
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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
Related schools
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
- HAYES MIDDLE0.2 mi · 372
- INEZ ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 309
- BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 216
- GRANT MIDDLE0.9 mi · 286
- LA MESA ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 415
- MARK TWAIN ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 285
Frequently asked questions
About ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 384 students in grades KG-08.
Is ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL have?
ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
What is the student diversity at ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL are roughly 30% White, 57% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL in?
ALICE KING COMMUNITY SCHOOL is part of ALBUQUERQUE.
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