COLLEGE AND CAREER HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 525 BUENA VISTA DR SE, in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, COLLEGE AND CAREER HIGH SCHOOL is a cozy 9-12 campus that instructs 280 students (grades 9 through 12), run under ALBUQUERQUE. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 450 students each, so COLLEGE AND CAREER HIGH SCHOOL sits 38% below that benchmark.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, COLLEGE AND CAREER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, COLLEGE AND CAREER HIGH SCHOOL reports that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 18% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Bernalillo County as a whole is about 49% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. The state averages around 22.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at COLLEGE AND CAREER HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bernalillo County) shows that median household income runs about $69,473, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bernalillo County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), of which COLLEGE AND CAREER HIGH SCHOOL is one.

ALBUQUERQUE INSTITUTE OF MATH & SCIENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. COLLEGE AND CAREER HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 75% since 2018, when it stood at 160 (now 280). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 55% to 72%.

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