ALVARADO ELEMENTARY

ALVARADO ELEMENTARY operates as a mid-sized elementary school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, part of ALBUQUERQUE. Current enrollment sits at 258 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

ALBUQUERQUE comprises 171 schools with combined enrollment of 74,041 students; ALVARADO ELEMENTARY is among them.

In terms of who attends, ALVARADO ELEMENTARY shows that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 20% White, 3% multiracial. 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 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bernalillo County's rate of about 90%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALVARADO ELEMENTARY ranks in the top 10% of New Mexico public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.4%; ALVARADO ELEMENTARY posts 49.5%, +16.1 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bernalillo County shows 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%. Across Bernalillo County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), ALVARADO ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

TAFT MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALVARADO ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 38.8%.

ALVARADO ELEMENTARY operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALVARADO ELEMENTARY has ticked down 13%, going from 295 students in 2018 to 258 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 14% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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