FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL

As an one-room-style 9-12 campus in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL serves 57 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within JUVENILE JUSTICE. Enrollment runs roughly 87% below the state mean of about 450.

Within JUVENILE JUSTICE, which oversees 2 schools and 90 students, FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Native American. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.9:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate median household income runs about $69,473, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bernalillo County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SEQUOYAH, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL.

FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 21%: 47 students in 2018 compared to 57 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 19% to 7% across the same window.

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