CORONADO ELEMENTARY

Set in HOBBS, New Mexico, CORONADO ELEMENTARY is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, one of the schools within HOBBS. It caters to 422 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 287 students each, so CORONADO ELEMENTARY sits 47% larger than that benchmark.

CORONADO ELEMENTARY is one of 18 schools operated by HOBBS, a district that serves 10,097 students overall.

In terms of who attends, CORONADO ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 20% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CORONADO ELEMENTARY has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at CORONADO ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Lea County's rate of about 73%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CORONADO ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Lea County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,015 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Lea County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students), CORONADO ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CORONADO ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, CORONADO ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 402 students in 2018 compared to 422 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 31% to 20% over that span.

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