EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY

As a large primary school in SANTA FE, New Mexico, EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY teaches 704 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under SANTA FE. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 287 students each, so EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY sits 145% above that benchmark.

SANTA FE comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 11,182 students; EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY is among them.

On the student-mix side, EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY records that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Fe County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.4%; this one comes in at 17.1%, -16.3 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Santa Fe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,071 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Santa Fe County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,719 students), EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY is one campus in the mix.

RAMIREZ THOMAS ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 21.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EL CAMINO REAL ACADEMY COMMUNITY has declined 18%, going from 859 students in 2018 to 704 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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