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Enrollment
409
Middle
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 335
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBUQUERQUE·NCES 350006000052
ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE
1820 VALDORA DR SW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87105 · (505) 877-3770 · Bernalillo County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL409 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of New Mexico public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Mexico public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
407 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 90%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 139 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 141 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 129 | 32% |
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 55% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
25.8%
NM avg 44.2%
Math
8.6%
NM avg 27.2%
What this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
Source: NM-MSSA + NM-ASR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NM schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on NM schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE
ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE's state test result (17.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE this school | 409 | 99.5% | 17.3% |
| TRUMAN MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 520 | 99.6% | 16.6% |
| CHAPARRAL MIDDLE CHAPARRAL | 546 | 100.0% | 28.0% |
| JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 420 | 99.5% | 20.6% |
| SANTA TERESA MIDDLE SANTA TERESA | 528 | 100.0% | 31.0% |
| JIMMY CARTER MIDDLE ALBUQUERQUE | 436 | 99.5% | 19.1% |
Matched among New Mexico middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Mexico | In Bernalillo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #107 of 113 | #26 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.6% | #109 of 120 | #23 of 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #113 of 122 | #25 of 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 409 | #57 of 160 | #13 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #41 of 101 | #17 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.2% | #101 of 103 | #28 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #69 of 116 | #14 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.6% | #15 of 89 | #12 of 25 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
409
-137 (-25%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 794
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 409 | 34.2 | 12.0:1 | 100% (407) |
| 2023-24 | 415 | 34.9 | 11.9:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 36.5 | 12.4:1 | 100% (453) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 100% (546) |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 47.1 | 12.7:1 | 100% (598) |
| 2015-16 | 584 | 46 | 12.7:1 | 100% (584) |
| 2010-11 | 658 | 54 | 12.2:1 | 100% (655) |
| 2000-01 | 950 | 69 | 13.8:1 | 93% (881) |
| 1990-91 | 794 | 52 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (598 to 409); teachers down 27% (47.1 to 34.2).
About ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE
ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE operates as a mid-sized middle-grades school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. It reports enrollment of 409 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New Mexico enroll around 335, and this school is 22% bigger than that mark.
ALBUQUERQUE has 74,800 students in 172 schools, and ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE is one of those schools.
Hispanic students are 96% of those enrolled at ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Bernalillo County's population at about 49%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 7%.
The school lists 34.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.0:1. That is in line with the 12.5:1 average for middle schools in New Mexico. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 100% of the student body. It compares with 90% for public schools in Bernalillo County.
On the allk12 Grade, ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE lands at F, ahead of 3% of New Mexico public middle schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 17.3%, is 16.2 points below the 33.5% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of New Mexico schools.
For the population of Bernalillo County, the median household earns about $69,473 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Across Bernalillo County, 211 public schools serve about 85,724 students.
KIT CARSON ELEMENTARY, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE ranks 6th of 6 on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 409 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 546. The ratio was 13.7:1 in 2020-21 and 12.0:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Bernalillo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
673,930
Census ACS
Median income
$69,473
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
85,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Other schools in ALBUQUERQUE
- VOLCANO VISTA HIGHHigh · 2,089 students
- ATRISCO HERITAGE ACADEMY HSHigh · 1,930 students
- LA CUEVA HIGHHigh · 1,826 students
- SANDIA HIGHHigh · 1,618 students
- ELDORADO HIGHCombined · 1,579 students
- ALBUQUERQUE HIGHHigh · 1,568 students
Nearby schools
- KIT CARSON ELEMENTARY0.2 mi · 395
- NEW AMERICA SCHOOL0.3 mi · 131
- RIO GRANDE HIGH0.7 mi · 1,475
- ARMIJO ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 260
- ALBUQUERQUE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 221
- ATRISCO ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 205
Frequently asked questions
About ERNIE PYLE MIDDLEHow large is ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE?
ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE enrolls approximately 409 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE serve?
ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE is approximately 12.0:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE?
At ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE, the student body is approximately 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE public or private?
ERNIE PYLE MIDDLE is a public K-12 school, overseen by ALBUQUERQUE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.