EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY

EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY operates as a medium-sized elementary school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE. Current enrollment sits at 339 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

ALBUQUERQUE comprises 171 schools with combined enrollment of 74,041 students; EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY is among them.

On the student-mix side, EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY logs that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White, 3% Native American, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 49% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.0%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bernalillo County put median household earnings sit near $69,473, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

The closest other public school is HELEN CORDERO PRIMARY, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EDWARD GONZALES ELEMENTARY has decreased 43%, going from 595 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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