GADSDEN MIDDLE

GADSDEN MIDDLE operates as a well-populated middle school in ANTHONY, New Mexico, part of GADSDEN. Current enrollment sits at 650 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 94% bigger than the state mean of about 335.

GADSDEN comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 11,739 students; GADSDEN MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, GADSDEN MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GADSDEN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Doñan Ana County put the typical household earns roughly $56,848 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Doñan Ana County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,561 students), GADSDEN MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

ANTHONY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GADSDEN MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, GADSDEN MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 738 students in 2018 compared to 650 in 2025.

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