EL DORADO COMMUNITY SCHOOL

EL DORADO COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of the large K-5 schools in SANTA FE, New Mexico, one of the schools within SANTA FE, with 432 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 287 students per school, that is 51% above typical.

EL DORADO COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of 29 schools operated by SANTA FE, a district that enrolls 11,182 students overall.

On the student-mix side, EL DORADO COMMUNITY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest breaks down as 38% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Santa Fe County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Santa Fe County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $79,071 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Fe County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,719 students), of which EL DORADO COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is THRIVE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, roughly 6.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 497 students in 2018 compared to 432 in 2025.

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