ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY

ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY is one of the rural-scale elementary campuss in ARROYO SECO, New Mexico, overseen by TAOS, with 99 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 287 students each, so ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY sits 66% below that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in TAOS (2,184 students total), ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY shows that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 18% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Taos County's rate of about 89%.

With demographic context factored in, ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of +6.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Taos County) logs that median household earnings sit near $58,950, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Taos County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,727 students), of which ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is ANANSI CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY has edged down 12%, going from 113 students in 2018 to 99 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 69% to 76%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the ARROYO DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.