DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY

As a mid-sized elementary campus in GALLUP, New Mexico, DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY serves 424 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by GALLUP. Enrollment runs roughly 48% larger than the state mean of about 287.

GALLUP runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 12,698 students. DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY shows that 61% of the student body identifies as Native American; the rest breaks down as 28% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.0%; this one comes in at 21.6%, -14.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for McKinley County put median household earnings sit near $47,668, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 28%. In all, McKinley County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,807 students), of which DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: LINCOLN ELEMENTARY, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY has decreased 10%, going from 472 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025.

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