DULCE ELEMENTARY

Set in DULCE, New Mexico, DULCE ELEMENTARY is an average-sized elementary school, run under DULCE. It serves 264 students across grades pre-K through 5.

DULCE comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 554 students; DULCE ELEMENTARY is among them.

Demographically, DULCE ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Native American, at 77% of enrollment; the rest reads as 20% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DULCE ELEMENTARY has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting DULCE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DULCE ELEMENTARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.7%; this one comes in at 17.8%, -15.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Rio Arriba County) reports that median household income runs about $57,155, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Rio Arriba County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,127 students), of which DULCE ELEMENTARY is one.

DULCE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DULCE ELEMENTARY at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 30.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 327 students in 2018 compared to 264 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 5% to 20%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the DULCE ELEMENTARY community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.