Enrollment
222
Elementary
DISTRICT 262 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALAMOGORDO·NCES 350003000002
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY
2600 19TH ST, ALAMOGORDO, NM 88310 · (575) 812-5100 · Otero County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL222 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
222 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 90%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 46 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 31% larger than its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
54.6%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
43.4%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NM schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in New Mexico's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY's state test result (51.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY this school | 222 | 100.0% | 51.4% |
| YUCCA ELEMENTARY ALAMOGORDO | 179 | 100.0% | 39.7% |
| ZIA ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 236 | 100.0% | 43.0% |
| SIERRA ELEMENTARY ALAMOGORDO | 284 | 99.6% | 53.3% |
| SOMBRA DEL MONTE ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 202 | 100.0% | 36.4% |
| COMANCHE ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 325 | 99.4% | 39.2% |
Matched among New Mexico elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Otero County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #40 of 329 | #3 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #59 of 354 | #3 of 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #80 of 366 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 222 | #305 of 490 | #8 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #237 of 318 | #3 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.1% | #48 of 334 | #5 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #10 of 393 | #1 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #148 of 287 | #6 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
222
+33 (+17%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 404
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 17.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 222 | 15 | 14.8:1 | 100% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 234 | 14 | 16.7:1 | 41% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 204 | 14.2 | 14.4:1 | 42% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 189 | 11 | 17.2:1 | 100% (189) |
| 2017-18 | 283 | 15.2 | 18.6:1 | 64% (180) |
| 2015-16 | 304 | 14 | 21.7:1 | 57% (172) |
| 2010-11 | 281 | 20 | 14.1:1 | 53% (148) |
| 2000-01 | 260 | 18 | 14.4:1 | 29% (75) |
| 1990-91 | 404 | 19 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (283 to 222); teachers down 1% (15.2 to 15).
About BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY runs as a small elementary school in ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico. Its 222 students are spread across kindergarten through 5. The school's enrollment is 23% smaller than the 287 average for elementary schools in New Mexico.
ALAMOGORDO counts 5,227 students in its 14 schools, and BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY is one of them.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY is Hispanic (49%). Smaller groups are 36% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Otero County is roughly 40% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.
Teacher staffing is 15 full-time equivalents, or about 14.8 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in New Mexico, the typical ratio is 12.9:1. About 100% of students, or 222, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Measured against New Mexico public elementary schools, BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY is a top-10% school in New Mexico on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests of 33.4% with an actual 51.4%.
Otero County has about 68,816 residents, and median household income is about $55,876, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Federal data list 26 public schools in Otero County, with a combined enrollment of about 7,639.
CHAPARRAL MIDDLE is the public school closest to BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY, about 0.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 39.2%; BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY's is 51.4%, ranking 2nd of 6.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Remote, or in a town far from an urbanized area.
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY had 189 students in 2020-21 and 222 in 2024-25, a 17% increase. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 17.2:1 to 14.8:1.
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Otero County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
68,816
Census ACS
Median income
$55,876
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
7,639 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALAMOGORDO
- ALAMOGORDO HIGHHigh · 1,440 students
- HOLLOMAN ELEMENTARYElementary · 517 students
- CHAPARRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 513 students
- MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 479 students
- DESERT STAR ELEMENTARYElementary · 466 students
- SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARYElementary · 436 students
Other schools in ALAMOGORDO
- ALAMOGORDO HIGHHigh · 1,440 students
- CHAPARRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 513 students
- MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 479 students
- DESERT STAR ELEMENTARYElementary · 466 students
- SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARYElementary · 436 students
- SIERRA ELEMENTARYElementary · 284 students
Other Buena Vista Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 6 states are named Buena Vista Elementary. BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY is the 9th largest of the 11.
- Buena Vista ElementaryGreer, SC · 834 students
- Buena Vista ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 713 students
- Buena Vista ElementaryPalmdale, CA · 573 students
- Buena Vista Elementary SchoolDEL RIO, TX · 515 students
- Buena Vista ElementaryLompoc, CA · 498 students
Nearby schools
- CHAPARRAL MIDDLE0.7 mi · 513
- SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 436
- SIERRA ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 284
- NORTH ELEMENTARY1.5 mi · 159
- STEPPING STONES PRESCHOOL1.5 mi · 114
- YUCCA ELEMENTARY1.5 mi · 179
Frequently asked questions
About BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY?
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 222 students in grades KG-05.
Is BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 14.8:1 students per teacher at BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY?
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 36% White, 49% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY?
BUENA VISTA ELEMENTARY is overseen by ALAMOGORDO in Otero County.
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