BELL ELEMENTARY

Located at 1000 EAST MAPLE, in DEMING, New Mexico, BELL ELEMENTARY is an average-sized elementary school that serves 301 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within DEMING.

DEMING comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,116 students; BELL ELEMENTARY is among them.

In terms of who attends, BELL ELEMENTARY lists that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 8% White. By comparison, Luna County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Luna County runs at roughly 96%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BELL ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.1%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Luna County indicate the typical household earns roughly $36,419 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 24%. BELL ELEMENTARY is one of 13 public schools in Luna County (combined enrollment of about 5,116 students).

Nearest neighbor: DEMING CESAR CHAVEZ, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELL ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, BELL ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. BELL ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged up 29% since 2018, when it stood at 233 (now 301). Hispanic enrollment moved from 86% to 90% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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