DEMING INTERMEDIATE

DEMING INTERMEDIATE, a middle-of-the-pack middle school in DEMING, New Mexico, one of the schools within DEMING, serves 373 students, covering grade 6.

Within DEMING, which oversees 13 schools and 5,116 students, DEMING INTERMEDIATE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, DEMING INTERMEDIATE shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%); the rest looks like 12% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.5:1, putting DEMING INTERMEDIATE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at DEMING INTERMEDIATE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DEMING INTERMEDIATE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Around the school, Luna County reports that median household earnings sit near $36,419, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 24%. In all, Luna County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,116 students), of which DEMING INTERMEDIATE is one.

The closest other public school is RED MOUNTAIN MIDDLE, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DEMING INTERMEDIATE comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

DEMING INTERMEDIATE operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. DEMING INTERMEDIATE's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 373).

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