BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY

BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY, a small elementary campus in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, operated by ALBUQUERQUE, educates 216 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 287 students each, so BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 171 schools in ALBUQUERQUE (74,041 students total), BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY records that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 20% White, 6% multiracial, 6% Native American. By comparison, Bernalillo County as a whole is about 49% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of +7.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate median household income runs about $69,473, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

GRANT MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BELLEHAVEN ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 28.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 38%: 348 students in 2018 compared to 216 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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