DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY

DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY is a cozy senior high in ANTHONY, New Mexico, run under GADSDEN. The school instructs 221 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 450 students each, so DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

GADSDEN runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 11,739 students. DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY reports that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 2% White. By comparison, Doñan Ana County as a whole is about 68% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.9:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Doñan Ana County indicate median household income runs about $56,848, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. In all, Doñan Ana County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,561 students), of which DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY is one.

ALTA VISTA EARLY COLLEGE HIGH 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 DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY.

DESERT PRIDE ACADEMY operates from a low-density location.

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