Enrollment
182
Elementary
DISTRICT 414 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAS CRUCES·NCES 350150000884
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY
4555 ELKS DR, LAS CRUCES, NM 88005 · (575) 527-1561 · Doña Ana County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL182 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
7.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
182 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 | 33 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 24 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 28 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (32).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
34.4%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
15.1%
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 15 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
28.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY's state test result (28.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY this school | 182 | 100.0% | 28.0% |
| REGINALD CHAVEZ ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 174 | 100.0% | 28.6% |
| ATRISCO ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 205 | 100.0% | 22.2% |
| R.V.TRAYLOR ELEMENTARY LORDSBURG | 158 | 100.0% | N/A |
| COCHITI ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 247 | 99.6% | 28.6% |
| MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY ALBUQUERQUE | 241 | 100.0% | 33.4% |
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 COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Doña Ana County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #215 of 329 | #27 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.1% | #282 of 354 | #33 of 39 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #240 of 366 | #32 of 40 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 182 | #349 of 490 | #40 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #139 of 393 | #36 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -61.0% | #2 of 287 | #1 of 33 |
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
182
-125 (-41%) vs 2020
-63% since 2010-11, when it was 498
Student : Teacher
7.0:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 182 | 26 | 7.0:1 | 100% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 198 | 21 | 9.4:1 | 99% (197) |
| 2022-23 | 225 | 21.5 | 10.5:1 | 100% (225) |
| 2020-21 | 307 | 25 | 12.3:1 | 100% (307) |
| 2017-18 | 467 | 27.1 | 17.2:1 | 100% (467) |
| 2015-16 | 499 | 31 | 16.1:1 | 64% (319) |
| 2010-11 | 498 | 37 | 13.5:1 | 79% (391) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 61% (467 to 182); teachers down 4% (27.1 to 26).
About COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is one of the public schools in LAS CRUCES, New Mexico. It is a small elementary school. It reported 182 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 287 students for elementary schools in New Mexico.
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is among 39 schools run by LAS CRUCES, which serves 22,670 students.
The share of students at COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY who are Hispanic is 90%. The remaining students are 7% White and 3% Black. Among people living in Doña Ana County, the Hispanic share is about 68%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 19, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 26 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 7.0:1. The average for elementary schools in New Mexico is 12.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 100% of students at COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 98% average for public schools in Doña Ana County.
Among New Mexico public elementary schools, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY outscored 35%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with New Mexico schools that have similar shares of low-income students, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY's results are 5.4 points below predicted: 28.0% against 33.4%.
In the wider Doña Ana County area, median household income comes to about $56,848, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 19%. Doña Ana County counts 81 public schools with about 36,561 students.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, VISTA MIDDLE, is the closest to COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY. On proficiency, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is behind the 38.3% nearby average, ranking 7th of 8.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Mid-size.
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY enrolled 307 in 2020-21 and 182 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. The school's ratio dropped from 12.3:1 to 7.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Doña Ana County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
224,266
Census ACS
Median income
$56,848
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
81
36,561 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAS CRUCES
- ORGAN MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,128 students
- CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,713 students
- LAS CRUCES HIGHHigh · 1,703 students
- MAYFIELD HIGHHigh · 1,327 students
- CAMINO REAL MIDDLEMiddle · 933 students
- MESA MIDDLEMiddle · 728 students
Other schools in LAS CRUCES
- ORGAN MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,128 students
- CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,713 students
- LAS CRUCES HIGHHigh · 1,703 students
- MAYFIELD HIGHHigh · 1,327 students
- CAMINO REAL MIDDLEMiddle · 933 students
- MESA MIDDLEMiddle · 728 students
Other Columbia Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Columbia Elementary. COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is the 25th largest of the 25.
- Columbia ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 706 students
- Columbia ElementaryPerris, CA · 704 students
- Columbia Elementary SchoolMadison, AL · 701 students
- Columbia ElementaryLancaster, CA · 620 students
- Columbia ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 601 students
Nearby schools
- VISTA MIDDLE0.3 mi · 574
- DONA ANA ELEMENTARY1.2 mi · 372
- EAST PICACHO ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 460
- JORNADA ELEMENTARY2.0 mi · 429
- HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY2.9 mi · 704
- CAMINO REAL MIDDLE3.1 mi · 933
Frequently asked questions
About COLUMBIA ELEMENTARYHow many students attend COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY?
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 182 students in grades PK-05.
Is COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY have?
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY?
At COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 7% White, 90% Hispanic, 3% Black.
Is COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY public or private?
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by LAS CRUCES.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.