BLANCO ELEMENTARY

BLANCO ELEMENTARY operates as a compact elementary school in BLOOMFIELD, New Mexico, part of BLOOMFIELD. Current enrollment sits at 138 students spanning grades 1 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 287 students per school, that is 52% below typical.

BLOOMFIELD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,387 students; BLANCO ELEMENTARY is among them.

In terms of who attends, BLANCO ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 31% White, 6% Native American, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, BLANCO ELEMENTARY records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. 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, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BLANCO ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 36.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Juan County indicate the typical household earns roughly $55,872 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Across San Juan County's 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,309 students), BLANCO ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

BLOOMFIELD EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.7 miles from this campus. 6 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), BLANCO ELEMENTARY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 34%: 210 students in 2018 compared to 138 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 50% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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