DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY

Set in LOS LUNAS, New Mexico, DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized primary school, one of the schools within LOS LUNAS. It hosts 393 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

LOS LUNAS comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,207 students; DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY is among them.

Demographically, DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). The remainder is composed of 9% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 61% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 25.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Valencia County shows median household income runs about $58,933, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Valencia County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,956 students), DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

VALENCIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 31.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. DESERT VIEW ELEMENTARY's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 393). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 58% to 86%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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