BERINO ELEMENTARY

BERINO ELEMENTARY is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in ANTHONY, New Mexico, part of GADSDEN, enrolling 300 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 26 schools in GADSDEN (11,739 students total), BERINO ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BERINO ELEMENTARY shows that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BERINO ELEMENTARY has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting BERINO ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at BERINO ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BERINO 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 26.3%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Doñan Ana County put median household earnings sit near $56,848, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Doñan Ana County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,561 students), of which BERINO ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is ALTA VISTA EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BERINO ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BERINO ELEMENTARY has decreased 35%, going from 460 students in 2018 to 300 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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