EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL

Set in DEMING, New Mexico, EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL is a cozy 9-12 campus, overseen by DEMING. It hosts 180 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 450 students each, so EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL sits 60% below that benchmark.

Within DEMING, which oversees 13 schools and 5,116 students, EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL records that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 19% White. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.9:1, putting EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Luna County indicate median household income runs about $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 EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL is one.

DEMING HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

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