Enrollment
372
Elementary
DISTRICT 414 · STATE 287
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAS CRUCES·NCES 350150000382
DONA ANA ELEMENTARY
5551 CAMINO DE FLORES, LAS CRUCES, NM 88001 · (575) 527-9506 · Doña Ana County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL372 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% of New Mexico public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
372 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 90%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 65 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
45.8%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
29.0%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like DONA ANA ELEMENTARY
DONA ANA ELEMENTARY's state test result (36.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONA ANA ELEMENTARY this school | 372 | 100.0% | 36.7% |
| SUNRISE ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 363 | 100.0% | 32.7% |
| BOOKER T. WASHINGTON LAS CRUCES | 361 | 100.0% | 24.0% |
| TOME ELEMENTARY LOS LUNAS | 340 | 100.0% | 23.1% |
| MAC ARTHUR ELEMENTARY LAS CRUCES | 335 | 100.0% | 17.4% |
| LA UNION ELEMENTARY ANTHONY | 340 | 100.0% | 47.3% |
Matched among New Mexico elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where DONA ANA ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Doña Ana County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.7% | #137 of 329 | #22 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #144 of 354 | #20 of 39 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #142 of 366 | #18 of 40 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 372 | #147 of 490 | #23 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #112 of 318 | #18 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.9% | #288 of 334 | #22 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #124 of 393 | #21 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.1% | #20 of 57 | #4 of 7 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
372
-6 (-2%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 535
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 372 | 30.5 | 12.2:1 | 100% (372) |
| 2023-24 | 377 | 28 | 13.5:1 | 99% (373) |
| 2022-23 | 399 | 30 | 13.3:1 | 100% (399) |
| 2020-21 | 378 | 29 | 13.0:1 | 100% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 329 | 27.1 | 12.2:1 | 100% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 370 | 26 | 14.2:1 | 59% (219) |
| 2010-11 | 449 | 32 | 14.0:1 | 78% (352) |
| 2000-01 | 634 | 36 | 17.6:1 | 73% (463) |
| 1990-91 | 535 | 26 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DONA ANA ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (329 to 372); teachers up 13% (27.1 to 30.5).
About DONA ANA ELEMENTARY
DONA ANA ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school found in LAS CRUCES, New Mexico. The school counts 372 students across pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in New Mexico is about 287 students.
District-wide, LAS CRUCES has 39 schools and 22,670 students.
Federal enrollment data show DONA ANA ELEMENTARY is 92% Hispanic. Other groups make up 8% White. Doña Ana County as a whole is about 68% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 15% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 30.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.2:1. On average, elementary schools in New Mexico have 12.9:1, compared with 12.2:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 100% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 98% average for public schools in Doña Ana County.
allk12 grades DONA ANA ELEMENTARY a B. The grade compares the school only with New Mexico public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, DONA ANA ELEMENTARY is 3.3 points above its prediction. Actual: 36.7%. Predicted: 33.4%.
Census estimates describe Doña Ana County this way: the median household income is $56,848, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and about 19% of people live in poverty. Besides DONA ANA ELEMENTARY, Doña Ana County has 80 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY, is about 1.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. DONA ANA ELEMENTARY places 5th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale data from NCES put DONA ANA ELEMENTARY in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (Suburb: Mid-size).
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 378 in 2020-21, 372 in 2024-25.
Community posts for DONA ANA ELEMENTARY can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Doña Ana County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
224,266
Census ACS
Median income
$56,848
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
81
36,561 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAS CRUCES
- ORGAN MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,128 students
- CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,713 students
- LAS CRUCES HIGHHigh · 1,703 students
- MAYFIELD HIGHHigh · 1,327 students
- CAMINO REAL MIDDLEMiddle · 933 students
- MESA MIDDLEMiddle · 728 students
Other schools in LAS CRUCES
- ORGAN MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,128 students
- CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,713 students
- LAS CRUCES HIGHHigh · 1,703 students
- MAYFIELD HIGHHigh · 1,327 students
- CAMINO REAL MIDDLEMiddle · 933 students
- MESA MIDDLEMiddle · 728 students
Nearby schools
- COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY1.2 mi · 182
- VISTA MIDDLE1.4 mi · 574
- EAST PICACHO ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 460
- JORNADA ELEMENTARY3.1 mi · 429
- RAICES DEL SABER XINACHTLI COMMUNITY3.8 mi · 122
- HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY3.9 mi · 704
Frequently asked questions
About DONA ANA ELEMENTARYHow many students attend DONA ANA ELEMENTARY?
DONA ANA ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 372 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does DONA ANA ELEMENTARY serve?
DONA ANA ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DONA ANA ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DONA ANA ELEMENTARY is approximately 12.2:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at DONA ANA ELEMENTARY?
At DONA ANA ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 8% White, 92% Hispanic.
Is DONA ANA ELEMENTARY public or private?
DONA ANA ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by LAS CRUCES.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.