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What's the one class at CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY every student should take?
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Enrollment
523
Elementary
DISTRICT 345 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000036
CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY
6325 MILNE RD NW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87120 · (505) 831-3301 · Bernalillo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL523 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.5:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
520 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 73 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
34.3%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
18.2%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 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 CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY
CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY's state test result (25.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY this school | 523 | 99.4% | 25.6% |
| SUSIE RAYOS MARMON ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 507 | 100.0% | 23.0% |
| SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 407 | 100.0% | 38.7% |
| SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 402 | 99.5% | 37.8% |
| MONTE VISTA ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 706 | 100.0% | 37.0% |
| HILLRISE ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 421 | 100.0% | 43.9% |
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 CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #253 of 329 | #63 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #247 of 354 | #59 of 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #241 of 366 | #57 of 101 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 523 | #36 of 490 | #10 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #84 of 318 | #38 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.5% | #163 of 334 | #57 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #256 of 393 | #71 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.7% | #37 of 287 | #22 of 88 |
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
523
-114 (-18%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 898
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 523 | 45.4 | 11.5:1 | 99% (520) |
| 2023-24 | 540 | 45 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 527 | 39.8 | 13.3:1 | 100% (527) |
| 2020-21 | 637 | 61 | 10.4:1 | 100% (637) |
| 2017-18 | 867 | 65.6 | 13.2:1 | 100% (867) |
| 2015-16 | 864 | 66 | 13.1:1 | 100% (864) |
| 2010-11 | 904 | 65 | 13.9:1 | 61% (548) |
| 2000-01 | 848 | 56 | 15.1:1 | 43% (367) |
| 1990-91 | 898 | 52 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 40% (867 to 523); teachers down 31% (65.6 to 45.4).
About CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY
CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY is a large elementary school in ALBUQUERQUE, located in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 523 students. That compares with an average of about 287 students for elementary schools in New Mexico.
Enrollment across the 172 schools in ALBUQUERQUE totals 74,800 students.
About 74% of the student body at CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY is Hispanic. Smaller groups are 13% White, 4% Native American, 3% multiracial, and 3% Black. County-wide, 49% of Bernalillo County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 43%.
Its ratio of 11.5:1 is based on 45.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New Mexico is 12.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 99% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Bernalillo County report 90%.
CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 21% of New Mexico public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY would be expected to post about 33.5%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 25.6%.
In the wider Bernalillo County area, the median household earns about $69,473 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY shares Bernalillo County with 210 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY is closest to HORIZON ACADEMY WEST, about 1.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY is 4th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
Locale data from NCES put CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 18%. The number of students per teacher increased from 10.4 to 11.5 over 4 years.
CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Bernalillo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
673,930
Census ACS
Median income
$69,473
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
85,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other Chaparral Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 4 states are named Chaparral Elementary. CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY is the 8th largest of the 12.
- CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARYCHAPARRAL, NM · 437 students
- CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARYDEMING, NM · 377 students
- CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARYSANTA FE, NM · 181 students
- Chaparral ElementaryPoway, CA · 858 students
- Chaparral Elementary SchoolGILBERT, AZ · 734 students
Nearby schools
- HORIZON ACADEMY WEST1.3 mi · 495
- ALBUQUERQUE BILINGUAL ACADEMY1.7 mi · 328
- CHRISTINE DUNCAN HERITAGE ACADEMY1.8 mi · 534
- ALBUQUERQUE TALENT DEVELOPMENT CHARTER1.9 mi · 119
- SUSIE RAYOS MARMON ELEMENTARY2.0 mi · 507
- MARIE M HUGHES ELEMENTARY2.0 mi · 417
Frequently asked questions
About CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY?
CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 523 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY serve?
CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY is approximately 11.5:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY?
At CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 13% White, 74% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY in?
CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY is part of ALBUQUERQUE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.