COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY

COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY is a K-5 school of expansive scale in CARLSBAD, New Mexico, one of the schools within CARLSBAD, instructing 684 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 138% bigger than the state mean of about 287.

CARLSBAD runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,217 students. COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY reports that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 14% White. By comparison, Eddy County as a whole is about 52% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Eddy County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Eddy County indicate median household income runs about $78,426, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Eddy County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,661 students), COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HILLCREST PRESCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 34.0%.

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

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