COMANCHE ELEMENTARY

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, COMANCHE ELEMENTARY enrolls 325 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE.

COMANCHE ELEMENTARY is one of 171 schools operated by ALBUQUERQUE, a district that hosts 74,041 students overall.

On the student-mix side, COMANCHE ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 30% White, 9% Native American, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting COMANCHE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at COMANCHE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, COMANCHE ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 39.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate median household income runs about $69,473, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bernalillo County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), COMANCHE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SANDIA HIGH, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COMANCHE ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 39.4%.

COMANCHE ELEMENTARY operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. COMANCHE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 397 (now 325). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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