COBRE HIGH

Set in BAYARD, New Mexico, COBRE HIGH is a small high school, run under COBRE. It hosts 257 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 450 students each, so COBRE HIGH sits 43% below that benchmark.

Within COBRE, which oversees 6 schools and 939 students, COBRE HIGH is one campus in the system.

On demographics, COBRE HIGH reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). The remainder looks like 7% White. By comparison, Grant County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, COBRE HIGH reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages around 22.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Grant County put median household earnings sit near $44,958, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. COBRE HIGH is one of 16 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 3,240 students).

SNELL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around COBRE HIGH.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. COBRE HIGH's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 341 (now 257). Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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