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Enrollment
474
Middle
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 335
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000617
CLEVELAND MIDDLE
6910 NATALIE ST NE, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87110 · (505) 881-9227 · Bernalillo County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL474 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New Mexico public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
468 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 156 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 146 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 172 | 36% |
Student demographics
65%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
52.1%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
26.2%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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
38.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.7%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% 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 CLEVELAND MIDDLE
CLEVELAND MIDDLE's state test result (38.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEVELAND MIDDLE this school | 474 | 98.7% | 38.9% |
| MADISON MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 532 | 99.6% | 37.7% |
| JACKSON MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 380 | 99.7% | 32.1% |
| JEFFERSON MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 615 | 99.3% | 44.5% |
| KENNEDY MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 296 | 98.3% | 18.4% |
| HOOVER MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 404 | 99.8% | 46.7% |
Matched among New Mexico middle 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 CLEVELAND MIDDLE ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #20 of 113 | #8 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #34 of 120 | #10 of 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.1% | #19 of 122 | #8 of 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 474 | #48 of 160 | #9 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #42 of 101 | #18 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.2% | #10 of 103 | #4 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.7% | #82 of 116 | #25 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.8% | #33 of 89 | #21 of 25 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
474
-116 (-20%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 988
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 474 | 38.7 | 12.3:1 | 99% (468) |
| 2023-24 | 509 | 39.8 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 561 | 36.6 | 15.3:1 | 100% (561) |
| 2020-21 | 590 | 46 | 12.8:1 | 100% (590) |
| 2017-18 | 622 | 43.7 | 14.3:1 | 62% (383) |
| 2015-16 | 605 | 42 | 14.4:1 | 67% (406) |
| 2010-11 | 714 | 41 | 17.4:1 | 63% (449) |
| 2000-01 | 910 | 53 | 17.2:1 | 26% (239) |
| 1990-91 | 988 | 54 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CLEVELAND MIDDLE.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (622 to 474); teachers down 11% (43.7 to 38.7).
About CLEVELAND MIDDLE
The public middle-grades school CLEVELAND MIDDLE is located in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. The school enrolls 474 students, from grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in New Mexico) has about 335 students.
ALBUQUERQUE oversees CLEVELAND MIDDLE and 171 other schools, with 74,800 students in total.
Hispanic students account for 54% of enrollment at CLEVELAND MIDDLE. Other students are 17% White, 14% Native American, 7% multiracial, and 5% Black. CLEVELAND MIDDLE has a diversity index of 65%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reports 38.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 12.3 students per teacher. Middle schools in New Mexico average about 12.5:1, a similar figure. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 99% of students. Across public schools in Bernalillo County, the average is 90%.
Measured against New Mexico public middle schools, CLEVELAND MIDDLE 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.
A school with CLEVELAND MIDDLE's lunch-eligibility share in New Mexico is predicted to score 33.7%. CLEVELAND MIDDLE scores 38.9%, 5.2 points above that line.
In the county around the school, Bernalillo County, median household income is about $69,473, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. A total of 211 public schools operate in Bernalillo County, serving about 85,724 students.
NEW MEXICO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: CLEVELAND MIDDLE ranks 4th of 6 nearby schools, at 38.9% versus a 38.9% average.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 474, 20% below the 590 of 2020-21.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Cleveland Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Cleveland Middle. CLEVELAND MIDDLE is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Cleveland Middle SchoolCLEVELAND, TX · 1,446 students
- Cleveland MiddleCleveland, TN · 1,291 students
- Cleveland MiddleGarner, NC · 936 students
- Cleveland Middle SchoolCleveland, OK · 328 students
Nearby schools
- NEW MEXICO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL0.4 mi · 432
- COMANCHE ELEMENTARY0.6 mi · 325
- GOV BENT ELEMENTARY0.6 mi · 339
- NEX GEN ACADEMY0.8 mi · 198
- DEL NORTE HIGH0.9 mi · 1,079
- SANDIA HIGH1.0 mi · 1,618
Frequently asked questions
About CLEVELAND MIDDLEHow large is CLEVELAND MIDDLE?
CLEVELAND MIDDLE enrolls approximately 474 students in grades 06-08.
Is CLEVELAND MIDDLE an elementary, middle, or high school?
CLEVELAND MIDDLE is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CLEVELAND MIDDLE?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CLEVELAND MIDDLE is approximately 12.3:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at CLEVELAND MIDDLE?
Student demographics at CLEVELAND MIDDLE are roughly 17% White, 54% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees CLEVELAND MIDDLE?
CLEVELAND MIDDLE is overseen by ALBUQUERQUE in Bernalillo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.