BROWN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

As a mid-sized K-5 school in PORTALES, New Mexico, BROWN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER enrolls 332 students from grades pre-K through K, one of the schools within PORTALES.

PORTALES runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,518 students. BROWN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BROWN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 27% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Roosevelt County as a whole is about 45% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting BROWN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Roosevelt County's rate of about 92%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Roosevelt County indicate median household income runs about $52,685, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Roosevelt County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,108 students), BROWN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one campus in the mix.

PORTALES JR HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around BROWN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 340 students in 2018 compared to 332 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.