HAGERMAN MIDDLE
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Test scores
NM-MSSA + NM-ASR 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the NM-MSSA + NM-ASR, New Mexico's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Mexico schools, those numbers are about 44 and 27.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for New Mexico schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Mexico's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HAGERMAN MIDDLE
Set in HAGERMAN, New Mexico, HAGERMAN MIDDLE is a very small intermediate school, one of the schools within HAGERMAN. It works with 70 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 79% leaner than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 335 students.
HAGERMAN MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by HAGERMAN, a district that teaches 408 students overall.
Demographically, HAGERMAN MIDDLE shows that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 23% White. The wider county runs roughly 58% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.5:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HAGERMAN 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 39.7%, a residual of +6.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Chaves County shows median household earnings sit near $52,938, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. In all, Chaves County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,504 students), of which HAGERMAN MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: HAGERMAN ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around HAGERMAN MIDDLE. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAGERMAN MIDDLE ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.4%.
HAGERMAN MIDDLE operates from a low-density location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 31%: 102 students in 2018 compared to 70 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.
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